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...together. "Dear friends," Captain Galal said mournfully after it was all over, "my aircraft was the same one that was hijacked to Sigonella." It was indeed the same Boeing 737 that, scarcely six weeks earlier, had been forced by American Navy jets to land in Sicily, to yield to Italian authorities the terrorists who had hijacked the Achille Lauro. The question was how many more planes would be destroyed, and lives lost, before ways are found to control this peculiarly contemporary form of international lawlessness...
...fight) or of casual defiance, like the raggedness of the 1950s beats. Actors showed stubble in movies only when their characters had been through the wringer or on a bender; even rebels like Brando, Dean and Clift were smooth cheeked. But when Clint Eastwood rode through those Italian westerns in the '60s, a meaner, more maverick kind of frontier hero was born, an amusingly amoral gunslinger whose standard equipment was a Colt Peacemaker, a cheroot, a sarape and a five-day stubble. In 1975 when Italian Designer Giorgio Armani started to show clothes that would turn menswear inside...
MOST INNOVATIVE RESTAURANT CONCEPT At Primi in West Los Angeles, the menu consists of primi piatti, first dishes that are appetizer-size portions of new-wave Italian specialties. In this sparkling café, with its black lacquer and mirror trim, a meal may include samplings of tiny clams in a garlicky tomato broth, tagliatelle in a meat and porcini sauce, chunks of snowy fish steamed with vegetables, duck breast rolled around a pureed olive "caviar." It is in relaxed contrast to Owner Piero Selvaggio's pricey, well-established Valentino...
MOST ESOTERIC CULINARY STATUS SYMBOL Squid ink. It is favored as a murky, caviar-like sauce for pasta or the Italian rice triumph, risotto...
...Italian Communist leaders have praised the Chinese for asking the right questions about why Soviet-style Marxism has failed economically, and a highly sympathetic account of the Chinese reforms appeared in East Germany's official newspaper Neues Deutschland. Svetozar Stojanovic, a Yugoslav social scientist now serving as a visiting scholar in the U.S., goes so far as to say that "in the eyes of many people, the Chinese have become the new vanguard in the Communist world." More surprising still are the views of Silviu Brucan, professor of sociology at the University of Bucharest in Rumania, a nation formally allied...