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Whether Pippo works in a Luxembourg steel mill, digs coal in Belgian mines or mans a Volkswagen assembly line in West Germany, he may well receive identical letters from Vittorio, Gino, Maria-Teresa and all his other party friends back home. Last week local Communist Party offices were passing out "Dear Pippo" form letters to home-town comrades to send to their migrant-worker friends in other European countries-a switch on the 1948 campaign, when Italian Americans wrote to relatives in the old country urging them not to vote Communist...
Patricia Roberts Harris, LL.D., lawyer and former Ambassador to Luxembourg. The ninth black American appointed to an ambassadorship, you were the first woman of your race to hold this office...
When 200 tight-lipped strangers moved into the hotel, rumors flew that the Arabs or organized crime were behind the project. By the end of January, the Clearwater Sun had traced the purchase money for the two buildings ($2,850,000, all in cash) to a bank in Luxembourg, and Mayor Gabriel Cazares was calling for an investigation...
Tiny Budget. To keep track of the Soviet spies, Luxembourg has its own intelligence arm, the Service des Renseignements, which operates on a tiny budget of $80,000 and is said to have only half a dozen qualified gumshoes. "Given its size," says one espionage expert, "Luxembourg does a pretty good job. But they don't have the players for a John le Carré game...
...Luxembourg's spooks-like the CIA-are currently under fire in the grand duchy's parliament, and may soon be put under an oversight committee in the legislature. Socialist Jean Gremling, who might be called Luxembourg's Frank Church, argues that "we don't want to be part of the silent war between secret service organizations here." That, of course, is just one more confirmation that the silent war in the grand duchy is uncomfortably real...