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Archbishop Luigi Poggi, a Vatican diplomat-at-large whose primary function is to maintain contact between the Holy See and the Polish government, returned to Rome following a week-long visit to Poland. While there, he had met with Jaruzelski and delivered a papal message urging an end to martial law. Poggi professed to see "some rays of hope" and even "the possibility of a reconciliation." Mediation with the Jaruzelski regime is being conducted not by the church directly but through a "social council" made up of Catholic laymen. Among them is a close friend of the Pope, Jerzy Turowicz...
...meantime, the Pope sent a special envoy, Archbishop Luigi Poggi, to Poland to meet with the military government, which in turn was holding talks with a committee of leading Catholic laymen. Poggi delivered a letter from the Pope to Jaruzelski and had a long discussion with him. The Pope also received a personal report on the Polish situation from Polish Bishop Bronislaw Dabrowski, who had twice visited Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa in detention. What was most interesting about these diplomatic contacts between the Warsaw government and the Vatican was the implication that Poland's present rulers would welcome the support...
...DIED. Luigi Petroselli, 49, typographer's son who joined the Italian Communist Party at age 19 and rose to become the first Communist to serve as mayor of Rome; of a heart attack; in Rome. Affectionately nicknamed "Joe Bananas" because of his twisted smile and boxer-like stance, the popular Petroselli, who took office in 1979, enhanced Rome's amenities by turning an area near the Coliseum into a Sundays-only pedestrian mall and instituting summer evening presentations of music, films and plays...
...Mottetti, stylishly performed by Mezzo-Soprano Janice Felty and Pianist Edward Auer, recalls the late Ital ian composer Luigi Dallapiccola in its lyricism and sophisticated melodic charm. Harbison sets dark, vivid images from Montale's Le Occasioni (1939) allusively, often employing the familiar device of musical tone painting. In the ninth poem, for example, the mezzo sings of a darting green lizard, and the piano responds with a scaly slither. But the music is much more than a literal transcription of the poetry, for Harbison has given it a deeper layer of meaning in transforming it into song...
...title role in Mussolini, the Last Act (1974). Next, the full, rabbinical beard had to go. Finally, Steiger's impressively shaggy head had to be shaved. But how closely? Over this hairy point, a heated argument arose between Steiger's makeup man and Producer-Director Moustapha Akkad. Luigi Galbani, 63, the barber at Rome's Excelsior Hotel, intervened. "II Duce," he declared, "was completely bald." That settled it. No one could doubt the word of a man who once wielded the razors at Mussolini's Ministry of the Interior. Said Galbani: "I shaved him several times...