Word: carabinieri
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...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...
...sound of the tocsin, villagers tumbled out of bed and, dressing as they ran, swarmed to the church, shouting threats. The alarm had been sounded by two early risers who had spotted the enemy on their way to work. The enemy: Parish Priest Andrea Tarquini, who, flanked by three carabinieri, had tried to slip secretly into the church to sign a document that the whole village considered an outrage...
...carabinieri showed up with orders to stop construction; Pastor Cannito rushed to the district judge, who promised to review the case, meantime warned Cannito that if one more stone went up, the pastor would go to jail. By last week, work had been stopped on the half-finished Baptist Church of Sant'Angelo in Villa. Said Manfredi Ronchi, president of the Baptist Union of Italy: "If dark forces prevail, we will have to suffer...
Last week Fondi's justice of the peace, bulwarked by the local carabinieri commander, came acalling on Righetti. They explained that in 1950 the owners of the apartment next to Righetti's had obtained exclusive rights to the one stairway leading into the courtyard below, but with the proviso that the door of what was now Righetti's apartment must be sealed off. The owner of Righetti's apartment had in turn sought permission to cut another door into the courtyard, but because the palace was a national monument, the Ministry of Fine Arts in Rome...
...leaped toward the bridge, but one of the men caught her arm and dragged her back. The other women tried to free her, but could not. While three of the attackers stood with leveled guns, two of the bullies dragged the schoolteacher into the wood. Six days later, the carabinieri found her-ensconced in a haystack with Mayor Nucera. "He has promised to marry me," Francesca told her rescuers. "I agreed to be carried off." "Women!" snorted the leader of the rescue party...