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...With the deft touch of political prestidigitators, Italian party leaders last week made a government crisis disappear as if it had never happened. Two weeks after Prime Minister Bettino Craxi had marched up Rome's Quirinal Hill to present his resignation to Italy's President Francesco Cossiga over his handling of the Achille Lauro hijacking, Craxi returned to reclaim his place as leader of his five-party ruling coalition. The President and the four other coalition partners decided to consider Craxi's resignation provisional, thereby allowing the same government with the same policies to continue. After an expected vote...
...lover. But while filmmakers have long since perfected the art of adapting plays and musicals to their medium, opera on film or videotape is in its infancy, the equivalent of shellac 78s in the age of digital CDs. Except for such movies as Franco Zeffirelli's La Traviata or Francesco Rosi's Bizet's Carmen, most videos are theatrical presentations rather than cinematic creations in their own right. Still, there is much to be said for having the best seat at the Vienna State Opera or Covent Garden right in your living room. A sampling of the current releases...
...parliament, the Prime Minister delivered a spirited defense of his actions during the hijacking ordeal. Then Craxi made the five-minute trip to President Francesco Cossiga's Quirinale Palace to resign. Craxi's government had served 26 months, which was one month shy of the tenure record for the 44 governments Italy has had in the past 39 years. Instead, the outgoing coalition earned a new distinction: it was the first one to fall owing to a foreign policy crisis rather than a domestic one. At week's end Cossiga was carrying on discussions with all of the country...
...Francesco J. Rockwood...
...story with gusto. Turin's La Stampa carried a headline about "poison salad on the table." Public fears grew when one newspaper erroneously reported that infant mortality was widespread in the tomato-growing area. Although the Italian government gave the crop a clean bill of health, public uncertainty lingers. Francesco De Lorenzo, Under Secretary of the Ministry of Health, declared that the state had tested the samples with procedures identical to those of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and had found no traces of the pesticide above .05 parts per million. According to World Health Organization standards, consumers would...