Word: italian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE IS A GOOD deal of fear and loathing in Rome these days. The recent assassination of Aldo Moro only exacerbated a steadily deteriorating social climate in a country where Machiavellian political intrigue has historically been par for the course. The average Italian does not know where to turn today for salvation. The lack of trust among various factions and the unwillingness to compromise which have characterized Italian national affairs since 1945 have continually thwarted efforts to form a new political coalition which would embrace more liberal elements and might bring about a greater degree of social cohesion. Even...
...depending of course on one's perspective), has emerged, including such notables as Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer, Pope Paul VI, Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli, prominent Mafia chieftains, and Brigate Rosse revolutionaries. Both the American CIA and Kremlin officials have also been charged in the Italian press with acting directly and indirectly to undermine political stability...
Nobody, it would appear, is immune to the rampant violence that has given rise to a siege mentality among the Italian people. Not only are bankers, captains of industry and politicians subject to abduction and killing, but virtually anybody suspected of being even comfortably "borghese" has become a possible target, as evidenced by the recent series of attacks on conservative newspaper editors and middle-level civil servants...
Earlier summits had produced grand, and unfulfilled, plans for encouraging economic growth. But at Bonn the leaders moved toward specific solutions for individual difficulties. In essence, each participant would attempt to correct problems that are hurting trading partners and retarding recovery. As one Italian diplomat quipped: "It's a bit like being sent home by the teacher with a homework assignment in your weakest subject...
...cleavage" (division of the egg without the involvement of a sperm), probably induced by incidental stimulation of the ovum. Scientists were similarly skeptical of claims by Shettles in the 1950s that he had brought an externally fertilized human egg into the sixth day of cell division, and by an Italian scientist, Daniele Petrucci, who a few years later announced that he had kept alive an embryo in a test tube for 29 days. The embryo was destroyed, Petrucci said, because it was growing "monstrous." He dropped the work entirely after it was condemned by the Vatican...