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Once the grand old man of Italy's Christian Democrats, 74-year old Giulio Andreotti has become the party's gray old man. Last Tuesday a parliamentary inquiry concluded that Andreotti's Sicilian protege had links to the Mafia. The next day Andreotti turned up at an army barracks to be interrogated in the Operation Clean Hands probe. Another ex-Prime Minister, Arnaldo Forlani, was ! also placed under investigation for allegedly illegal party financing. Both men insist they are innocent...
Genuine political reconstruction may be long in the making. Tangentopoli has left scarcely any prominent political figure untouched. The latest to be implicated: Giulio Andreotti, a pillar of Italian politics for half a century and seven times Prime Minister, who is under investigation for corruption and for having ties to the Mafia. He has denied both accusations. The possibility of a Mafia connection at the pinnacle of power opened the door on far more sinister misbehavior than bribe taking. Suddenly, high-level murders, including those of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro following his kidnapping by the Red Brigades...
Italian Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz. Through Oct. 11. Thirty-eight Italian drawings ranging in date from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Among works featured are masterpieces by Giulio Romano, Guercino Casstiglione, Tiepolo, Salviate, Cnaletto and Guardi...
...communist invasion. Code name: Operation Gladio, as in a gladiator's double-edged sword. Skip ahead to last July, when a Venetian magistrate named Felice Casson, investigating a 1970s car bombing in Peteano, uncovers the network while searching through files at SISMI, the Italian intelligence service. When Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti admits Gladio did exist, a national scandal ensues. Most disturbing are suspicions that renegade Gladio agents may have been involved in right-wing terrorism in the 1960s...
That debate, in turn, was a sort of warmup for what is likely to be an even sharper dispute at this week's seven-nation Western economic summit in Houston. That meeting will reunite Bush, Thatcher, Mitterrand, Kohl and Prime Ministers Brian Mulroney of Canada and Giulio Andreotti of Italy, plus Toshiki Kaifu of non-NATO Japan...