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...CZECH author Milan Kundera once wrote that the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. He was remembering how the angry Western reaction to the 1968 Soviet invasion of his country had quickly cooled. Today, the struggle against forgetting has lost more ground--this time in a neighboring country, Poland...
...Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci's masterwork, which is located in the former refectory of Milan's Santa Maria delle Grazie convent, was said to have begun deteriorating almost as soon as it was finished in 1497. The surface cracked because Da Vinci used an experimental primer on the wall. Then came the ravages of flooding, the cutting of a doorway, clumsy restoration and Allied bombing during World War II. But the latest attacks have come from modern tourists...
Hamadei was the second suspected terrorist to be arrested in Europe last week. In Italy, police at Milan airport seized another Lebanese man, Bachir Khodr, 26, who arrived from Beirut. Inspection of picture frames and chocolate Easter eggs in Khodr's luggage found them to be filled with 24 lbs. of plastic explosives. A portable radio that he carried contained 36 detonators. Authorities in Italy believe Khodr may be a member of a pro-Iranian terrorist group called Hizballah and could possibly have ties to Hamadei. Italian Interior Minister Oscar Scalfaro asserted that the "arrest in Frankfurt is linked with...
Khashoggi first met Lamia in Milan when she was a 17-year-old named Laura Biancolini. When she married Khashoggi in 1978, she changed her name and converted to the Muslim faith (as had Soraya). Buxom and statuesque with blue, almond-shaped eyes, she is self-possessed and cool. She dresses according to the Joan Collins Dynasty handbook, complete with diamonds and decolletage. With her, as with her husband, more is definitely more. Her idea of casual is to wear a one-inch ruby-and-diamond ring with matching ruby earrings. Her 40- carat diamond wedding ring covers the lower...
...more than a month, America's Ford and Italy's Fiat had waged a fervent campaign for the hand of Alfa Romeo, the prestigious but financially troubled maker of sleek sports cars. Last week the local swain won. I.R.I., the Italian state conglomerate that owns Milan-based Alfa, announced acceptance of Fiat's $5 billion offer for 100% ownership. Also-ran Ford's bid was never made public, but it was believed to include an initial $100 million for a 20% chunk of Alfa plus promises of a hefty $2 billion additional investment in the company...