Word: italian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uniforms of Alitalia personnel. As the shooting started, they pulled out hidden weapons and peppered the police car with a heavy fusillade. A few residents rushed to their terraces, but a terrorist warned them away with a wave of his submachine gun and a few words spoken in Italian with a guttural foreign accent...
...country almost inured to brazen violence, the abduction of so lofty a public official sent Italy reeling in shock. The government quickly launched the biggest man hunt in postwar history. Thousands of police, joined by 30,000 Italian troops, threw a cordon around the capital. Roadblocks were set up on all highways out of Rome. Homes and apartments of suspected radicals were searched, countless youths stopped and quizzed...
...devised political formula that had finally brought the Communists into the parliamentary majority. A law professor, he was noted as a conciliator and master of the anomalous solution that enabled disparate political forces to find common ground. He was, in fact, the leading candidate to succeed Giovanni Leone as Italian President at the end of the year...
...least, was exactly the reverse. A gigantic labor rally in Rome, called to express outrage at the kidnaping, produced the unusual sight of white banners, with the crossed shield of the Christian Democrats, flying silk-to-silk with the red flags and the hammer and sickle of the Italian Communists...
...into the North End. Once there, start yelling. "Anthony, Anthony." Ask one of the hundreds of kids that come running up to you for directions to the Etna Pastry Shop at 7 Prince St. When you reach Etna's, ask for a half dozen cannoli (a luscious, cream-filled Italian pastry), and then head for one of the many fine restaurants in the North End to get some spaghetti, ravioli, veal cacciatore or whatever you want. (I recommend Felicia...