Word: hearded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since the brazen daylight kidnaping and subsequent assassination of former Premier Aldo Moro last spring, Italian investigators have been intrigued by indications that there may have been a West German connection to the crime. Some eyewitnesses reported that they thought they heard German spoken at the scene of the abduction. Police also noted that the manner in which the kidnaping was staged and the precision execution of Moro's five bodyguards were curiously similar in style to the kidnaping six months earlier of German Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer in Cologne...
...Sales told a friend last week. "We are simply going to have to look for one." During the hunt, new names kept cropping up on the list of papabili. For instance, Florence's Giovanni Benelli, 57, a kingmaker and a possible candidate himself, was heard by a Vatican insider to say he favors Albino Luciani, 65, of Venice, particularly because of their shared aversion to Communism. Carlo Confalonieri, who carries much weight among Italians, although he is too old to vote, agreed. Suddenly Luciani, heretofore seen as a remote compromise candidate, shot up on the lists...
Identical rhetoric about campers learning to "build a better world" can be heard from Joseph Mehrten-only he is a spokesman for the eleven John Birch Society camps scattered across the country. Here the camp song is the Battle Hymn of the Republic, swimming races are meant to be won, and authority is still in vogue. "If you are late for a class, you get clean-up duties," says Mehrten...
...County, Kennedy's staff immediately invited the new leader to stop by. When Hagan wondered if the Senator might possibly be keynote speaker at the state's largest political gathering in October, he was startled at how quickly Kennedy said yes. Old campaign friends who had not heard from the Senator for some time have begun receiving postcards from his trips, another sign that he wants to renew contact with his network around the country...
These issues and many more besides will be on the minds of the Cardinals in conclave, but their overwhelming preoccupation will, of course, be with the secrecy-shrouded, ritual-encrusted process of choosing the next Vicar of Jesus Christ. According to one frequently heard scenario, the right and the left will knock each other off and a moderate will emerge as the winner?an Italian moderate. The trouble with that scenario is that two clearly defined blocs no longer exist. Paul made the Sacred College in his own image, and he shunned the extremes. The candidates form a mass...