Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visitors. Four out of five were British, which shows a public loyalty to haunts of privilege that Engels might have found hard to explain. The truth is that neither English history nor English culture can be understood without these places; they matter far more as social evidence than most Italian palazzi or French chateaus. The ritual of public visits is not at all new. Some great houses have been open to curious strangers since the day they were built (even the 1st Duke of Marlborough was pestered by tourists in 1711 while building Blenheim...
...With the deft touch of political prestidigitators, Italian party leaders last week made a government crisis disappear as if it had never happened. Two weeks after Prime Minister Bettino Craxi had marched up Rome's Quirinal Hill to present his resignation to Italy's President Francesco Cossiga over his handling of the Achille Lauro hijacking, Craxi returned to reclaim his place as leader of his five-party ruling coalition. The President and the four other coalition partners decided to consider Craxi's resignation provisional, thereby allowing the same government with the same policies to continue. After an expected vote...
Ironically enough, Craxi's political resurrection can be traced to the warm and sympathetic letter sent by President Ronald Reagan to soothe ruffled Italian feelings over U.S. criticism after Abbas' release. A week later, at Reagan's invitation, Craxi joined the President in New York City for a 25- minute private talk. Said Reagan after the chat: "I'm sitting here with my very good friend." For Italians worried about the potential threat to Italo- American relations, it was a signal that Craxi had been given a tacit endorsement by the White House. Said one political observer: "The new Craxi...
...While Italian political life returned to normal, the Achille Lauro embarked on a new cruise with 570 tourists on board. It was not all smooth sailing. A bomb scare was taken so seriously that a nervous crew dumped a cargo of slot machines into the sea rather than risk the chance of hidden explosives among the crates. The ship also left a wake of legal problems. Italy's Supreme Court settled a quarrel over whether Genoa or Syracuse would have the authority to / continue the investigation of the hijacking and bring the terrorists to trial. Genoa won on the ground...
...claimed priority as the place where the four hijackers had re-entered Italy, was left with two legal cases. One was brought by Carlo Longo, an angry local newsman who lodged a formal charge of "piracy" against President Reagan for the way the U.S. tried to seize Abbas on Italian soil. Said Longo: "Maybe they won't arrest Reagan, but Sicily isn't just an American colony. It's a matter of principle...