Word: carabinieri
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later, in Rome's Queen of Heaven jail, Lepori told his story: a onetime member of Italy's proud carabinieri, he had been released from a mental hospital during World War II to fight in the Italian army. After the war, the Defense Ministry gave him a job chopping wood and raking leaves in his native Sardinia. Last year, still suffering from his old mental illness, Lepori decided to retire-only to discover that he had not been on the ministry's permanent rolls and, after 15 years as a "temporary laborer," was not entitled...
...When 40 carabinieri arrived to clear the marketplace for the day's trade, tempers flared, and the trouble began. Fighting tear gas with rocks, cabbages and potatoes, the mob forced the troopers to retreat into the city hall, where for good measure the rioters ransacked the local tax office and burned the tax records. Seizing the abandoned carabinieri truck, the peasants drove it through the barred double doors of the city hall's main entrance and set it afire. But inside, besides the harried carabinieri, were 100 women and children, who were trapped in upper floors...
...dozen doctors, both Yemeni and Roman, diligently labor to resharpen the Sword of Islam. Meanwhile, the women lounge around a beach hotel near Rome, relishing television, ice cream and high-calorific Italian cooking. They are protected from prying newsmen by dagger-brandishing Yemeni guards on the premises, jittery carabinieri at the portals...
...Italian National Blood Donors Association, Pennsylvania's "flying grandfather," Max Conrad, Mount Everest's Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, Fiat Auto Co. President Vittorio Valletta, the U.S. 686th Air Force band and choir (which serenaded him), the officers and men of his own Swiss Guard, and 30 of the carabinieri and motorcycle police who escort his car around Rome...
...Osservatore Romano have even been known to censor what they consider an unseemly papal frankness. When, on a precedent-breaking visit to Rome's Queen of Heaven prison, John told the jailbirds that "one of my relatives who was out hunting without a license was caught by the carabinieri and sent to jail for a month." L'Osservatore reported that "His Holiness recalled the bad impression he received as a boy when someone close to him, though in no serious way, and though unintentionally, transgressed...