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...cohesion that the dead leader had established. As for the post of Prime Minister, there seemed to be no one ready to fill Sá Carneiro's shoes. His Deputy Prime Minister and acting successor, Diogo Freitas do Amaral, is a frosty Christian Democrat unfamiliar with compromise. Socialist Mario Soares, an indispensable helmsman of the nation as Prime Minister after the 1974 revolution, is currently out of favor with both the electorate and his party...
...generation of literary figures also sounds pop: Mario Puzo ("I'll make him an offer he can't refuse"), Paddy Chayevsky ("I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more") and Andy Warhol ("In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes"). Even the most eminent politicians nowadays are often remembered less for literary-power than for pop theatrics. Richard T Nixon, for example, is trailed by a whole series of unstatesmanlike remarks...
According to testimony at the trial, Errichetti, Johanson and Criden tried unsuccessfully to squeeze even more money from the pseudo Arabs. The trio arranged for a Philadelphia lawyer, Ellis Cook, to impersonate Mario Noto, then deputy commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, and demand a bribe for himself. But Cook's memory apparently failed him at the critical moment. Weinberg asked his name. "Nopo," replied Cook. "Nopo?" asked Weinberg in disbelief. "Yeah, Nopo," said Cook. "N-o-p-o. "Suspecting an impostor, Weinberg ordered Cook to leave. As the tape was shown, laughter rippled through the courtroom...
...widely regarded as the start of political terrorism in Italy and for which rightist extremists were tried and sentenced. The bombing took 16 lives and left 90 injured. In the past three years, the N.A.R. specifically has been blamed for 25 attacks, including the murder in June of Mario Amato, a Rome judge who had been investigating its activities...
...suspected N.A.R. member named Marco Affatigato was picked up after Italian authorities received an anonymous tip that the 24-year-old hospital cook had been seen at the Bologna station shortly before the bombing. Affatigato had already been wanted in connection with the jail break of Terrorist Organizer Mario Tuti two years ago. Nevertheless, Italian police said that Affatigato's possible involvement in Bologna was far from certain. Cautioned Chief Investigator Luigi Persico: "Right now it's still a process of eliminating one false lead after another until we find out what happened...