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THOUGH not on a military assignment, Bill McHale, our Rome bureau chief, met his death last week in the line of duty. He was killed in the plane crash that also took the life of Italy's oil czar, Enrico Mattei, whom he was accompanying to gather material for a story. Whether covering street riots in the Middle East, or undergoing the normal hazards of a much-traveled foreign correspondent, McHale was familiar with danger...
Died. William Francis McHale Jr., 42. TIME-LIFE bureau chief in Rome; in the crash of a private jetliner that also killed Italian Industrialist Enrico Mattei; near Milan, Italy (see WORLD BUSINESS). A deft and imperturbable New Yorker. Bill McHale served four years with the Coast Guard during World War II, studied at Harvard Business School, and entered journalism as a business writer for Barron's Weekly; he joined TIME in 1949, was a writer for two years and then became a correspondent serving successively in Washington, London and Beirut before going to Rome...
More than any other man, elusive Enrico Mattei, 56, influenced the sustaining postwar boom known as the "Italian Miracle.'' Boss of the state-owned oil and gas monopoly called E.N.I, (for Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi), he made it a power to reckon with in Italian politics, and was lionized by ordinary Italians for his daring, his nationalism-and his luck. He earned a U.S. Bronze Star as a war-time partisan. Elected to the Chamber of Deputies, he was put in charge of the sputtering state oil monopoly. Unwilling to see this remnant of Fascism dismantled, he disobeyed government...
...company to continue production, thus assuring himself of a continuing income while he dickers for help in getting his own company on its feet. And help may not be hard to find. The Soviet Union might aid Kassem simply for political advantage. And in Rome sits hawk-faced Enrico Mattei, boss of Italy's state petroleum monopoly, who delights in defying the big Western oil companies. Though Mattei is getting oil more cheaply from Russia than he probably could from Iraq, he is under mounting pressure from other Common Market members to cut back his imports of Soviet...
Then the S.A.O. turned to Italy. Last summer they had sent a death warning to Italy's top industrialist, Enrico Mattei, because they suspected that he had made a deal with the rebel Moslem F.L.N. to exploit Saharan oil once France pulls out of Algeria. Last week, at Rome's Urbe airport, mechanics warmed up Mattei's sleek, twin-jet executive plane to carry him on a flight to Morocco to dedicate a new oil refinery at Mohammedia, where the top leadership of the F.L.N. was meeting. Hearing a peculiar noise in one of the French-built...