Word: giorgio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Inside a 17th century Benedictine monastery on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, across the Grand Canal from the Doge's Palace, the Europeans spent several hours deliberating their Middle East policy statement. Giscard, who had long been out in front in favor of Palestinian self-determination, wanted the statement to call for outright "participation" of the P.L.O. in negotiations. In the end, faced with opposition from Denmark and The Netherlands and, most of all, by West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, he conceded that such wording was premature; the conferees agreed to use the less provocative term "associate...
...restaurant as the stars twinkled out a little starstruck themselves to meet the town's newest celebrity: famed Tenor Luciano Pavarotti, a sometime Alfredo, who is about to take four months out of a schedule almost as fully packed as he is to star in Yes, Giorgio, a comedy about an Italian singer who falls in love with an American woman. Carol Burnett produced paper and pen for his autograph, Carroll O'Connor emerged from his Archie Bunker to demonstrate a sensitive knowledge of opera, and Grant, using the word that any Cary impersonator can deliver, told Pavarotti...
...Government had been planning to build its prosecution around the testimony of Giorgio Ambrosoli, who had been appointed by a Rome court to liquidate the Sindona-controlled Italian banks that had collapsed along with Franklin National. But last July, Ambrosoli was killed in Milan, and Italian police have not charged anyone with the shooting...