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...understand the impulse of the Vatican to stress a broader range of sins for the modern age. Gianfranco Girotti, the No. 2 Catholic official in charge of confessions and penitence, told the Vatican's newspaper, "You offend God not only by stealing, blaspheming or coveting your neighbor's wife" but also by polluting, cloning, taking drugs, promoting social injustice or becoming obscenely rich. Where the standard sins are individual failings, in a global culture sin is social. "Attention to sin is a more urgent task today," Girotti said, "precisely because its consequences are more abundant and more destructive...
Heads soon began to roll. In May 1975, Mario Einaudi, freewheeling chief of a state-owned mining and textile conglomerate, was forced to resign after he highhandedly tried to gain control of a Genoa shipping, insurance and newspaper group without informing the government. Next to go was Raffaele Girotti, chairman of ENI, who had led the big state petroleum company to a $95 million loss. Camillo Crociani, apparently recognizing that his job was shaky, chose not to wait...
...present chief of ENI, which controls more than 35% of Italy's petroleum industry, is Raffaele Girotti, 53, a Cefis protegé. Trained as an engineer, Girotti has worked for ENI since 1949. He has earned the nickname "The Hammer" because of his ruthless management skills. In an effort to reorganize one sprawling firm, he interviewed every man in its management ranks, sometimes as many as 30 a day, and then decided which ones to keep and which to discard...
Advancing in Africa. With two close aides who also had been cronies of Mattei-Eugenio Cefis, 42, and Raffaelo Girotti, 45-Boldrini has bargained to buy low-cost crude oil for Italy from both Russia and the U.S.'s Jersey Standard, thus pursuing Mattei's policy of playing off rivals and exploiting a buyers' market. Stretching out in Europe and Africa is the chain of gas stations run by E.N.I.'s sales arm called AGIP, whose symbol is not a dinosaur or a flying horse but a six-legged dog (it was a draftsman...
...Fascism at first is something to suffer in silence and loathe from a distance. Then it closes in until it engulfs him: it forces him to join the party or lose his job; it turns his wife and daughter into prattling Mussolini worshipers; it sends his oldest son (Massimo Girotti) to fight in Ethiopia, Spain, Albania and Russia and claims his two younger sons for the Battle of Sicily...
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