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...Mario Valceschini...
...chain of events that led to the imminent Senate hearings began in January 1978, when an Atlanta businessman, Mario Leanza, visited the Grand Hotel Excelsior in Catania, Sicily. There Leanza met Michele Papa, an Italian who had formed a Sicilian-Libyan Friendship Association. Papa had been told by Ahmed Shahati, head of Libya's foreign liaison office in Tripoli, that Gaddafi respected the tough American oilmen he had met, wanted to do more business with the U.S., and change Libya's image in America -and get his hands on those C-130s. During the Carter Administration, the Libyans...
...MARRIED. Mario Thomas, 42, stage, screen and television actress (That Girl), and crusader for the feminist cause; and Phil Donahue, 44, popular TV talk-show host and recent bestselling autobiographer (Donahue, My Own Story): she for the first time, he for the second; in Beverly Hills, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Danny Thomas...
...talk of an open convention infuriates Carter's aides. "A bizarre suggestion at best," said Tim Kraft, coordinator of the President's field campaign. Scoffed New York Lieutenant Governor Mario Cuomo, a rival of Carey's and supporter of Carter's: "It sounds as though Carey is saying that if you get to the eighth inning and you don't like the score, you should change the rules...
Delegates at Cleveland represented a wide cross-section of backgrounds and motives for being there, including left-leaning democrats, new-left radicals from the 1960's (Mario Savio, founder of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley--the group which kicked off student protests in the '60's--was there, with graying hair and beard), radical teminists, American Indians, gays, and Gray Panthers...