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Sometime during his ten-day visit, Reagan will surely have kind words to say about the West European allies' resolve in deploying the new Euromissiles. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens, Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have all accepted the NATO weapons on their soil, despite heavy pressure from the peace movement. Allied solidarity has been further strengthened by the near unanimous Western rejection of Gorbachev's recent offer to "freeze" the missile balance in Europe at current levels, which greatly favor the Soviet Union...
...Italian authorities may soon hear from another defendant in the conspiracy trial. Turkish police last week arrested Bekir Celenk, a Turk whom Agca has accused of helping arrange the plot against the Pope. Until his reappearance in Ankara, Celenk, a reputed smuggler, had been secluded in Bulgaria since at least...
Some occupants of the Dolomiti hotel were luckier. Though the building was partly destroyed, a number of people who had huddled together in one corner of the dining room escaped the wall of water. Adolph Tirelli, a member of the Italian customs police, helped rescue one man. "We heard some people crying for help and rushed across the hall, but it was quicksand," he noted. "In the cellar, the mud reached to within four feet of the ceiling. We started digging . with our hands to take him out but unfortunately were not able to pull out any of the other...
...skillfully held together a coalition government for more than 3½ years. The odds finally caught up with the popular Prime Minister last week in an unexpected crisis over the government's handling of the May soccer riot in Brussels that left 38 dead in a clash between English and Italian fans. Six Liberal Party ministers quit after Minister of the Interior Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb, a member of the Christian Social Party, refused to accept direct responsibility for the incident. Martens offered his government's resignation, but in a rare move by the country's constitutional monarch, King Baudouin refused...
...trade situation, though, could be affected by instability in foreign exchange markets and shifting currency values. A readjustment of currencies within the European Monetary System, which is made up of Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany, took place last weekend. The Italian lira was devalued by 6%, while other currencies were revalued 2%. The Italian currency came under heavy speculative pressure on Friday, with its value going from 1,870 lire to the dollar to 2,200 in a few hours before the Bank of Italy stepped in and ordered a halt to trading...