Word: aprils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bombing, which both explained as an attack on Rome's Communist municipal administration. Whoever did the deed, the blast was only part of a surge in mayhem that has paralleled the campaigning for the June election that is to produce Italy's 42nd postFascist government. Since early April, after Christian Democratic Premier Giulio Andreotti's attempt to form another Cabinet was stillborn because the Communists refused to support it, Italy has been racked by new violence...
...French police are said to have been tracking Negri for several months, after one of the kidnapers' calls was broadcast in the hope someone would recognize the voice. A Milan judge named Emilio Alessandrini identified it as that of the young professor, with whom he had dined on April 11, 1978, while Moro was still captive. Last January, Alessandrini was killed by terrorists belonging to a Red Brigades splinter group...
...producing states have discovered that the secret to the Oil Game is collusion, not competition. So far, the cartel's principal difficulty has been getting all members to agree to price-propping production quotas. But Libya has been cutting back on its normal deliveries by 17% since April 1, while Iran, whose production is now at 4 million bbl. a day, is actually pumping only two-thirds of its prerevolutionary volume. Others may soon follow with cutbacks of their...
Earlier in April, cable operators were partly freed of an obligation to broadcast shows they did not want to carry. The FCC had long required cable stations to provide "public access" air time to just about any group that put together a show. Though some of the programs perform a real public service (consumer-advice shows, for example), many are excruciatingly dull (talk shows on which people-in-the-street rattle on about nothing in particular) and a few border on pornography (nude dancing on Midnight Blue over Manhattan's Channel...
...Supreme Court struck down the public-access obligation on a federal level in early April. Local authorities can still compel cable operators to make available public-access air time, and cable companies cannot legally remove the raunchier shows. Still, the Supreme Court ruling gave cable operators somewhat more authority to choose from among programs that they think will actually arouse some interest...