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Palazzo Chigi, the Renaissance building where Italy's Prime Minister works, is swathed in green netting while workmen repair its deteriorating facade. Last week the government inside was also crumbling. Citing deep rifts in his five- party coalition, Socialist Bettino Craxi resigned as Prime Minister after 3 1/ 2 years, ending Italy's longest postwar government...
...gave up when the mechanics made it clear that they no longer wanted to deal with his problem. Jane Ullman, a Santa Monica, Calif., sculptor, thought her refrigerator problems were over when deliverymen installed a new deluxe model in her kitchen. But her woes were just beginning; the workmen broke the refrigerator's copper pipes, which took several visits from repairmen to fix. "People have learned to take shoddy service in stride," she says wearily. Even when they speak up and get their money back, consumers often come away with a feeling of being abused. Earlier this month, when...
...time, an internal auditor for Rockwell International, one of eight contractors involved in running the plant, charged that there had been 54 critical safety lapses over the past two years at the two plants that provided fuel for the reactor. The worst of these occurred on Sept. 29, when workmen moving plutonium liquid from one container to another failed to shut off some adjoining pipes -- an oversight that could have led to a chain reaction. The Government closed both plants in early October...
While officials were trying to organize remedies for these safety lapses, they were bedeviled by rumors that workmen at Hanford sometimes indulged in cocaine and marijuana. Local investigators discovered, among other things, that a number of employees had had their security clearance revoked for drug use during the past two years. But Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank Wilson contends that charges of drug abuse have been grossly overblown...
...Sakharovs had heard the good news four days earlier from an impeccable source. At 10 o'clock one evening, workmen had unexpectedly installed a telephone in their Gorky apartment. The next day at 3 p.m. Sakharov received a call from none other than the General Secretary of the Communist Party, Mikhail Gorbachev. The Soviet leader said the Sakharovs would be permitted to return to Moscow and that Andrei could go back to his "patriotic work...