Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Angelo wanted to follow Prime Minister James Callaghan's Labor Party campaign for a while, she would trade places with TIME's men on the bus: veteran Correspondents Erik Amfitheatrof, Frank Melville and Arthur White. Amfitheatrof, who covered the 1976 Italian general election as a TIME correspondent in Rome and has reported on the sometimes unruly politics of Africa and the Mediterranean, was delighted to find this campaign unmistakably British. He recalls watching Callaghan at a whistlestop, a cup of tea in his hand, plunging into the crowd and politely imploring them: "Forgive me for having...
...violence is not likely to produce the result that the Red Brigades seek. At week's end, every major Italian party, including the Communists, joined in a Rome rally to demonstrate solidarity against political violence and a determination to try to end Italy's raging epidemic of terrorism. So far this year, the tally of terrorist acts, from bombings to kneecappings to bank heists, stands at an astonishing 865 incidents...
...Pope's new Italian aide...
John Paul mulled over the choice for nearly two months following the death of Secretary of State Jean Villot. It was a foregone conclusion that a Polish Pope with no Vatican experience would have to choose an Italian to help him deal with the predominantly Italian Secretariat of State. John Paul reportedly considered giving the job to Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, 72, the hard-line conservative Archbishop of Genoa, but they could...
...much a junket as a sentimental journey. It was at Castel D'Aiano 34 years ago that the Senator, then a young infantry officer, led an attack across the Po River. He was wounded by enemy fire so severely that his right arm is useless. His Italian friends? It was to their house that Dole was dragged for the medical aid that saved his life...