Word: benito
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rachele Mussolini, 61, widow of the late Benito, finally got possession of her old dowry farm near Forlì, plus six other farms and two villas once owned by the dictator. One catch: the government slapped a $16,000 mortgage on the property owned by Il Duce, which represented, it said, wartime profits made during his regime...
...runs into the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. In the 19th Century the British, the French and finally the Italians each grabbed themselves a wedge of Ethiopia's shore. In their portion called Eritrea (pop. 1,000,000; area 50,000 sq. mi.), the Italians of Benito Mussolini's Fascist era rebuilt the old city of Asmara. From Eritrea the Italians launched their conquest of Emperor Haile Selassie's domain. It took World War II to drive the Italians out again and put Haile Selassie back on the throne...
When he got out of jail, Benito managed to find a job as waiter at the Parliament bar which his father had once run. Protestant activities were strictly limited under Franco, and the Evangelical community was all but dispersed. Benito asked his old friend Pastor Fliedner to help him get ready for the ministry...
...Little Misguided. Soon after he became a minister, a call came to Barcelona-to the largest Protestant church (300 members) in Catalonia. Benito went to his boss at the bar and explained why he wanted to leave. When he discovered that he had been harboring a fledgling Protestant pastor, the proprietor was horror-struck. "I am a ruined man!" he groaned.* When word got around, the president of the Parliament thundered: "Where is this man? I want to slap his face. Shame on you for having sheltered...
Last week Pastor Benito, whose red brick church is filled each Sunday, was preparing to interrupt his 18-hour days of preaching, teaching and prayer to visit Majorca. "I have to go there," he said. "There are brothers out there who have not seen a pastor in years. I must go. But not on a mission, for we are not missionaries. The Spanish people do not need missionaries . . . they are . . . only a little misguided and confused. They need the Gospel. I will bring it to them...