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Marriage Revealed. Umberto Agnelli, 39, tough-minded managing director of Italy's largest private industrial empire, Fiat automakers, and Princess Allegra Caracciolo, 28, occasional international jet-setter; he for the second time, she for the first; near Turin...
...have starved to death because they had no land, the material aspect should not be discounted. But land reform for the NLF is more than a material concept--it is a construction of a new set of social relationships. The Front never entered villages simply to redistribute land by fiat. Instead, the NLF organized village discussions, usually lengthy, at which even the humblest peasant would air his or her views concerning the reforms. When a certain consensus was reached, the reforms would be enacted--and the peasants were ready to fight to protect them...
Ordinarily, Libya would have little leverage in such a showdown. But La Stampa happens to be owned by Fiat, a giant industrial conglomerate that is not in the business of offending influential heads of state. Though he balked at firing the reporters, Fiat Chairman Giovanni Agnelli paid a visit to Libya's embassy in Rome, hoping to mollify Gaddafi. Agnelli failed dramatically. Last week the Arab League Boycott Committee in Beirut threatened a ban on all Fiat products in Arab nations unless Agnelli sacks La Stampa Editor Arrigo Levi, a Jew who once fought in the Israeli army. Agnelli...
...they were. His reason may have been that I do not draw any racial conclusions. In everything I have written on the subject, I have been at pains to state that the question of population differences in I.Q. remains open, and so I state here. We cannot exclude by fiat the possibility of inborn I.Q. differences between all sorts of human groups--men and women; Democrats and Republicans; English and Italian; black and white and yellow and red--simply because we hope there are no such differences. Instead, we should bear in mind that if such differences are shown...
...prescription is more likely to be a cold shower or a trip to nearby Austin. For this month the Chicken Ranch was closed by official fiat from the state capital. The 16 girls are gone, and no one knows where Edna...