Word: ils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political trial, the biggest political trial to unfold in Italy since after the war. I am not accused of having done anything, such as broken anybody's head, but only of having thought or said certain things. If I get up and say 'Viva il Duce!' I can go to jail for twelve years. If a Socialist does it, nothing happens...
...persuade the Watergate burglars to plead guilty and remain silent. He also insisted that he had made no attempt to get the CIA to take the blame for the Watergate operation? and had authorized no one else to do so. He denied authorizing or encouraging "subordinates to engage in il legal or improper campaign tactics." Curiously, he did not say whether he had been aware of such activities...
...sleek blue and white Soviet IL-62 jet descended circling out of the hazy blue sky, touched down lightly and taxied toward a welcoming band of West German officials led by Chancellor Willy Brandt. Black, gold and red West German flags and red and gold Soviet banners snapped in the breeze as the guard of honor clicked to attention, steel-tipped black boots at the prescribed 45-degree angle. Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev strode down the steps, shook hands with Brandt and stood at attention as a Bundeswehr band played the two nations' anthems...
...Europe's newest opera house, Turin's opulent Teatro Regio, which has been rebuilt at a cost of $13 million to replace the original two-century-old theater that was destroyed by fire 37 years ago. Still, no one doubted that it was La Callas, not il teatro, who was the true star of the occasion. The dazzling opening-night audience included luminaries like President Giovanni Leone, but it was "Mar-i-a!" that the crowd shouted...
...wife of "Joe Doakes" cannot pay her bills, Meany warned, "he'll look for higher wages. But the answer is not to get 12% to 15% in wages. The answer is to hold down food costs and other costs." To do so, Meany proposed a World War Il-style controls program that would include a ceiling on profits and Government allocation of credit as well as stiff wage-price guidelines. Committee Chairman Wright Patman favors a stern program that would roll back rents to the levels of Jan. 10 (the last day of Phase II), freeze prices and interest...