Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Glamour Deb." Her name and photograph were everywhere during 1938, including the cover of LIFE, and there was a backlash: people would sometimes hiss when she walked into a restaurant. Frazier died last May-after a nervous breakdown, two marriages and a notoriously messy liaison with a titled Italian playboy-still bitter about her overwhelming deb year. "Brenda Frazier was my parents' friend," Cornelia says. "So sad. But I don't want to read about her until I get older...
...normally cautious Italian politicians exuded confidence that they possessed the evidence to incriminate, at the very least, the Bulgarian secret service. Although final proof is still lacking, the government's decision to go public with charges that had until then appeared only in the form of rumors and leaks in Italian newspapers has created one of the worst crises in years between a NATO country and a member of the Warsaw Pact. Foreign Minister Emilio Colombo announced that the Italian government had taken measures to reduce sharply Bulgaria's diplomatic presence in Rome and to make it harder...
...fact that Italian officials would make such explosive accusations aroused intense curiosity among Italy's allies. In the absence of detailed information about the evidence in Italian hands, most Western diplomats and intelligence officers remained cautious. The U.S. refused to make any statement supporting or denying the Italian charges. In Paris French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson noted that "the Italians are serious people. [Colombo] would not have taken the steps that you know about if there had not been some Bulgarian elements involved...
...Italian charges prompted an emotional response last week from the Soviet Union. Leonid Zamyatin, spokesman for the Central Committee, angrily denied any Soviet or Bulgarian involvement in the papal shooting. He accused Western intelligence agencies and the Western press of conducting "a malicious campaign that has not a grain or iota of truth." Added Zamyatin: "If these insinuations continue, it will be seen as a deliberate campaign of aggravating world tension, an evil-minded campaign to discredit Bulgaria and the Soviet Union in the eyes of Catholics...
...Sverdlev, a defector who was a colonel in the Bulgarian secret service until 1971, "is like that between master and slave." True as that may be, it does not constitute any proof of Soviet involvement in the Pope's shooting. Indeed, Bulgarian involvement has not been proved, but Italian authorities plainly feel their case is strong. -By Kenneth W. Banta. Reported by Gregory H. Wierzynski/Washington and Wilton Wynn/Rome, with other bureaus