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...most touching and poignant cases encountered by C.C.U. staffers concerned a gravely ill youth named Carmelo. The boy had a chronic renal condition, epilepsy and heart trouble that left him, at 14, just 43 in. tall and dependent on dialysis and a battery of medications. In addition, family troubles had rendered him angry and very lonely. For more than a year, the C.C.U. "doctors" spent time with the teenager, who rarely talked and refused to walk. Then one day comic magician Mark Mitton taught him a "mind-reading" card game, and Carmelo began to open up. The boy took great...
Malta's Prime Minister Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici, for his part, found himself in a dilemma over Cairo's request that his government extradite the sole surviving hijacker, a 22-year-old Palestinian who gave his name as Omar Mohammed Ali Rezaq, to Egypt. For Bonnici, going along with the Egyptians threatened Malta's close ties to Libya. He refused, arguing that the crimes involved had taken place on Maltese soil and that Egypt does not have an extradition treaty with Malta...
When Washington first imposed a trade embargo on Cuba in October 1960, it hoped to force Havana to abandon Marxism. Today, nearly 25 years later, the Cuban government is still Marxist, and it is one of Moscow's closest allies. The example is mentioned by Carmelo Mesa-Lago, director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, as evidence that trade sanctions are at best only temporarily damaging. In the long run, he believes, the embargo against Nicaragua "will not work. History shows it did not work in the case of Cuba...
...diverse parentage and gave the couple No. 5's newborn child Massimo. Giuseppe's father-in-law Antonio was lonely and just a little envious: "You mean all these women are just for you?" No problem. Giuseppe lent the old man No. 6. Giuseppe's father Carmelo, a widower, was also lonely. No problem. In exchange for Fortunata, Carmelo, 64, traded his secondhand truck, worth...
That deal was Giuseppe's undoing. His father thought he had bought Fortunata outright with the truck. Not so, said Giuseppe; Fortunata was just on loan. Seven times, Giuseppedrove to his father's to reclaim Fortunata. Seven times Carmelo went to his son's to retrieve her, paying Giuseppe $36 per retrieval. Finally, Carmelo moved to cut his losses: he took Fortunata to the town hall and married...