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...murder last week came only nine days after the killing of Palermo Police Commissioner Giuseppe Montana. Both men had been active in last year's arrest of a Mafia leader who later turned state's evidence. A deeply shocked Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi immediately summoned his top security officials for an emergency meeting. At midweek an 800-man force of police and carabinieri was flown to Palermo. Declared the city's mayor, Luca Orlando: "We cannot cope on our own. Either there is national action against the Mafia, or Palermo and Sicily will be lost...
...experience: "We really didn't know if anyone would consent to be photographed, but once the word got around, we got amazing cooperation." For one thing, Adams' sessions never took more than ten minutes. "In fact," he says, "the Prime Ministers of Britain, Italy and China [Margaret Thatcher, Bettino Craxi and Zhao Ziyang] all showed up at the same time, and we took three different sets of portraits in 15 minutes...
Sometime during his ten-day visit, Reagan will surely have kind words to say about the West European allies' resolve in deploying the new Euromissiles. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens, Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have all accepted the NATO weapons on their soil, despite heavy pressure from the peace movement. Allied solidarity has been further strengthened by the near unanimous Western rejection of Gorbachev's recent offer to "freeze" the missile balance in Europe at current levels, which greatly favor the Soviet Union...
...DIED. BETTINO CRAXI, 65, Italy's first postwar socialist leader from 1983 to 1987; in Tunisia. He later faced charges of corruption...
CARLO AZEGLIO CIAMPI, ITALY'S NEW PRIME MINister, hit the ground running last week -- and almost stayed there. Hours after swearing in his Cabinet, Ciampi faced his first crisis. The lower house of Parliament voted in a secret ballot to let former Prime Minister Bettino Craxi avoid trial on four of the most serious of six charges of corruption and election-law violations. The votes came either from his old cronies or from opposition legislators who want to force new elections. Thousands of people took to the streets in Rome, Milan, Genoa and other cities to protest that cowardly display...