Word: genoa
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...agony, he hears a voice telling him to go to Jerusalem. It is a popular idea. Half the world seems headed in the same direction, whipped by Pope Urban II into the frenzy that will later be called the First Crusade. The maimed pilgrim boards a ship at Genoa and then finds his progress stalled. He is captured by pirates and put up for sale at a slave market in Tripoli. His purchaser, a wealthy Turkish merchant, immediately negotiates his freedom and brings him home in friendship to Antioch, that unfortunate city whose destiny lies between the Crusaders and their...
...Atlantic off the coast of Senegal on Jan. 17,1980. The trouble was that the cargo it had left in Durban had actually been owned all along by the Shell International trading company, and the Salem was supposed to have been carrying it to the Italian port of Genoa. As soon as it became known that the Salem's cargo had in effect been sold twice, there were allegations that the tanker had been scuttled to hide that fact. The South African government revealed to Parliament last week that it had subsequently paid an additional $30.5 million to Shell...
...intelligence reports. When Dabringhaus found out about Barbie's checkered past, he informed his superiors. Says he: "They told me to forget it for now. When he was 'no longer useful, they would deal with him." They never did. In 1951 Barbie turned up in Genoa, Italy, before escaping to Bolivia with documents issued by the International Committee of the Red Cross...
...cavorted like the devil, but oh how Nicolo Paganini could play. Considered the greatest violinist who ever lived, he was electrifying as he hunched his skeletal frame and hawklike features over his magnificent violin, crafted by Giuseppe Guarneri in 1742. "Perpetually conserved" in Italy by the city of Genoa, according to Paganini's will, the prized Guarneri, insured for $800,000, crossed the Atlantic last week, and in the skilled hands of Neapolitan Virtuoso Salvatore Accardo, 40, made its U.S. debut at New York City's Carnegie Hall. "I have played it several times," says Accardo, "and every...
...brigatisti. He has also signed an open letter to Red Brigades members still at large, urging them to abandon their armed struggle. The message was underscored by a similar plea from the Brigades' reputed mastermind, Enrico Fenzi, 43, a onetime professor of Italian literature at the University of Genoa who was arrested in Milan last year. Wrote Fenzi: "In ten long bloody years, the armed struggle has demonstrated its inability to construct any political program whatever. The Red Brigades chapter is tragically closed...