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Death in Rome
THE ALDO MORO MURDER CASE By Richard Drake. Illustrated. 318 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. $45. ON the morning of March 16, 1978, Aldo Moro, the leader of the Christian Democratic Party, headed off to Parliament for the inauguration of the first Italian Government to be actively supported by the Communist Party. It was…
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In its current fury of television takeovers and deregulation, is the United States following the Italian model of media ownership? During Silvio Berlusconi’s eight months as Italy’s Prime Minister, when he controlled the state television system along with his own three private stations, the “Berlu-sconi phenomenon” seemed like something that could happen only in Italy….
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Since the old Italian political order shattered in 1992, prosecutors have scored major gains against the Mafia. Salvatore (Toto) Riina, the Mafia’s reputed “boss of bosses,” is now serving nine life sentences. From 1992 to 1994, Italy’s homicide rate fell more than 40 percent. The investigative trail has pointed toward top politicians accused of protecting…
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ANTONIONI The Poet of Images. By William Arrowsmith. Edited by Ted Perry. 195 pp. New York: Oxford University Press. $25. AT the time of his death in 1992, William Arrowsmith, a distinguished translator and professor of classics, left an unfinished manuscript on the films of the Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, whose work Arrowsmith had championed…
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