Word: liri
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sleeping on Cue. He was born in 1924 in a village called Fontana Liri, 50 miles southeast of Rome. He apprenticed in his father's carpentry shop and later took a degree in surveying at the University of Rome, graduating just in time for the Germans to put him to work making military maps. "It was all so stupid." he says. "We were still doing maps of Sicily when the Americans were in Florence...
...chiefs of staff of the Warsaw Pact, and Grechko [Moscow's commander in chief of Warsaw Pact armies] brought pressure to bear on us by threatening to exclude us from the Warsaw Pact." The Russians also tried to sub- vert Albania's party officials. Specifically Mrs. Liri Belishova, a member of the Politburo, who "capitulated to the dishonest threats of the Soviet Union...