Word: lamberto
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Albright met with the German, French, British and Italian foreign ministers in New York City last week to plot how each country might exploit its ties with dissident elements in Serbia. She asked Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini, for example, to place a phone call to the Vatican. The Serbian Orthodox Church last month demanded that Milosevic step down and instructed its priests to preach from the pulpit this past Sunday that Serbian forces are responsible for the atrocities in Kosovo. Washington wants Pope John Paul II, who helped engineer the toppling of Poland's communist regime, to join...
Their first stop was in Brussels for a NATO briefing. But midway through General Wesley Clark's discussion of how a peacekeeping force could be structured, Albright got called out. Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini of Italy was phoning with the somewhat surprising news that Milosevic had decided to allow Ibrahim Rugova, the Kosovar Albanian leader, to leave the country. On Serbian TV five weeks ago, Rugova had criticized NATO's bombing, presumably speaking under duress. Albright wanted to make sure that once he arrived in Italy, he would support NATO's position. She dispatched Ambassador Christopher Hill to be there...
MILAN: The political future of former Italian premier Silvio Belusconi was at stake as his corruption trial began Wendesday in Milan. Berlusconi, the media magnate who lost the premiership after seven months amid conflict-of-interest charges, is attempting a comeback just as the trial gets underway. Premier Lamberto Dini resigned last week, and President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro is meeting with potential candidates to suceed him. Berlusconi meets with Scalfaro on Friday. TIME's Greg Burke reports from Rome: "This is a do-or-die situation for Belusconi, who wants the premiership back. We have no idea how strong...
Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro today ended a volatile, 22-day period of uncertainty at the top by naming the country's respected treasury minister, Lamberto Dini, as prime minister-designate to succeed flamboyant media magnate Silvio Berlusconi. The non-partisan Dini promised "a government of technocrats" to restore stability in a country that has seen 53 postwar governments come and go. But Berlusconi, who resigned last month after losing parliamentary support, called Scalfaro "a sphinx who minces his words" for not reappointing him. A large-scale political fight now looms, as Berlusconi presses for elections that, with recent gains...