Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Franco Modigliani, 67, the theory's principal author, was named the 1985 Nobel laureate in economic science. "With many people, the Nobel Prize is a question of if," said Paul Samuelson, an M.I.T. colleague and the 1970 economics laureate. "With Franco, it was only a question of when." The Italian-born Modigliani is the 13th American to win or share the prize since it was first given in 1969 and the fifth to receive it in the past six years...
...dramatic details of the Achille Lauro affair emerged last week, providing answers to, and fresh questions about, what really happened during the six-day crisis. From the returning passengers and crew came a vivid account of the horror aboard the Italian cruise ship. Marilyn Klinghoffer, 59, returning home to New York City, recalled the anxious hours she spent on an upper deck with machine guns pointed at her head. The hijackers, she recounted, "kept popping their guns and playing with grenades on their belts, like little kids." Falsely told by the terrorists that her husband was in the ship...
...When Italian controllers denied permission for the intercepted EgyptAir Boeing 737 to land at the Sigonella air base in Sicily, the American military escorts declared a "fuel emergency" and ordered the 737 down. The pilot aborted his first approach. But he swung around, came in again and soon found himself surrounded by Italian carabinieri and some 50 U.S. Delta Force commandos, who had piled out of U.S. C-141 transport planes that had landed within moments of the EgyptAir craft and were proceeding on orders from the White House to take custody of the terrorists...
...Italian and American armed forces both converged on the 737. When it ; became clear that the Italian paramilitary forces did not plan to surrender custody of the terrorists, Major General Carl W. Stiner and an Italian colonel got into a sharp debate. The U.S. commandos, said a Washington official, "were pulling back the bolts" on their rifles. Abbas, in his Yugoslav interview, concurred. "American and Italian soldiers were threatening each other with their weapons, ready to shoot," he said...