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...like Europe!" trilled one gleeful opening-day shopper, as venders with pushcarts barked out bargain prices for avocados and melons, farm-fresh eggs, Cheddar cheeses, 100 different kinds of pasta and bushels of other items. Actually the scene was not the old Les Halles in Paris or the Campo dei Fiori in Rome, but the Quincy Market, a huge, copper-domed structure in Boston, just a cod's throw from the famous old Haymarket. Last week the once-dilapidated Quincy Market reopened after a massive renovation to serve its original purpose: a central market for city dwellers...
...central act in the Communist kickoff took place in the glassy modernistic Palazzo dei Congressi outside Rome. There, amid red bunting, Communist flags and green-white-and-red Italian tricolors, slender Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer, 53, formally opened the campaign at a massive rally. He called for "an end to the disastrous predominance of the Christian Democrats" and urged voters to "give Italy a government that's different." Significantly, the overflow audience that roared approval of Berlinguer's words was mostly young and middle class...
Another erstwhile pillar of the Franco state now in opposition is the Catholic church. Under the "red Cardinal" Tarancon, the ecclesiastical hierarchy preaches social justice and the separation of church and state, paving the way for a republic. The lay Catholic association Opus Dei, whose technocrats engineered Spain's economic growth, leads the forces seeking political liberalization and entrance into the Common Market...
...character." The mayor, who still lives in the working-class quarter of Borgo San Paolo, remembers his youth: "My parents used to take me to the Piazza Sabotino for ice cream. They met their friends; I saw my schoolmates. There was a hedge row we called the Vialle dei Sederi ["Bottom Boulevard"] because of the great row of buttocks of people sitting there talking. Nowadays Piazza Sabotino looks like the track at Le Mans-no trees, no benches, just traffic and the chaotic sameness of the rest of the city." Someday Novelli, in what may be his most radical plan...
Died. Monsignor Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, 73, founder and president general of Opus Dei, the spiritually elitist Catholic lay organization that has 60,000 members in 73 countries; of a heart attack; in Rome. Founded in 1928, Opus Dei eventually became so influential in Spain that some critics accused it of wielding inordinate political and economic power...