Word: arrigo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...signals. Nonetheless, the complaints of the Europeans again highlight the difficulty of getting the allies to work in concert at times of crisis. That problem may be insoluble. "It would always be better if the West could react in solidarity and immediately to a Soviet challenge," wrote Italian Columnist Arrigo Levi in La Stampa last week. "But the West is not an empire. It is an alliance of free people that must take into account the diversity of its opinions and interests...
...Without their decision, such a large demonstration would not have taken place," says Columnist Arrigo Levi. In fact, it was Italy
...many New Yorkers, Governor Hugh Carey looked a little undemocratic last week. Philip J. D'Arrigo, a Westchester County dentist, paid $48,000 last year for an acre of land adjacent to Carey's summer home on Shelter Island at the end of Long Island. Said D'Arrigo, 47: "I hope to hang up my drill in 15 years, live out there and go fishing." But when the dentist began constructing his 2½-story dream house 165 ft. away from Carey's, the state police certified that it posed a security hazard to the Governor...
...Arrigo fought back loudly and struck a nerve. Carey humbly said, "I regret if my position as Governor has been a burden to my neighbors"-and ordered the state to leave D'Arrigo's property alone. Back in Manhattan, Carey presumably lifted his spirits by planning to move himself-and two state police guards -into a new $500,000 duplex apartment on Park Avenue, more spacious than his current digs in a midtown hotel...
...shouting threats like "Beat them to death!" ("P'a hou yin hsi!" in the Chinese Min-nan dialect). The rioters even looted a police station and injured the staff there. The police, on the other hand, were forbidden to fight back. Unlike the impression conveyed in quotes by Linda Arrigo, no demonstrators were hurt...