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Andyar has not contacted any Afghan or international track-and-field authorities since disappearing Friday from a training facility in Formia, Italy, 106 miles (170 km) south of Rome, where she and other international athletes were based in June. Italian police are investigating the disappearance, though there are no signs of foul play. Her bags and passport were also gone from her room, a sign that she may have left...
...Italian Olympic official said Andyar and other athletes who had previously been training in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, had been in Formia the past month to train, and as a base for European track meets. "We were only the hosts," the Italian official said. "They were in transit here...
...other Afghan track athlete expected in Beijing, a male sprinter, as well as an Afghan trainer were also at the Formia facility, and they told authorities they were unaware of Andyar's whereabouts. TIME contacted both the Afghan Olympic Committee and the country's track-and-field association in Kabul, but neither knew where Andyar was. An Afghan Olympic official said the team holds the right to substitute Andyar with another female athlete, though the IOC would have the last word...
Richard Robinson publishes Chapter Five of his novel, a segment of which was widely appreciated by Advocate readers several months ago. This excerpt, titled "Afternoon in Formia," concerns a ruse devised by two rakes giro and Lorenzo, to acquire bank funds that do not belong to them, and also, a devilish trick that Giro plays on Lorenzo, in which the latter, in an effort to demonstrate that a person consumed by pity blinds himself to reality, receives, for his services, not the roses that he anticipates, but rather, an unfortunate pelting of old artichokes and rotting lettuce heads...
Figures Talk. Staggered but still fast on his feet, Nenni immediately began to drop hints that he might abandon politics and retire to his seaside villa at Formia. Coming from the Socialist Party's biggest vote getter and the idol of its rank and file, this was a potent threat. Hastily the newly elected central committee granted Nenni's demand that it endorse his Socialist unification policy and give his supporters a majority of the seats in the party secretariat...