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...Several days later, the missing man's family reported getting a letter from his captors saying that he must answer to "proletarian justice." U.S. law enforcement officials remained skeptical and listed him as a "missing person" rather than as a kidnap victim. Said Italian Magistrate Guido Viola of Milan, where Sindona has been charged with a bank fraud totaling $225 million: "More likely, he has fled to some distant place. He has disappeared in his most difficult moment, when he was to come before American justice...
...York subway map; criminal lawyers suggest that a jury might find the evidence too confusing to vote conviction. More over, one of the chief witnesses against him, Lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli, the court-appointed liquidator of Sindona's bankrupt Italian empire, was killed last month by three gunmen in Milan, a day before he was to sign a 50-page deposition for U.S. prosecutors...
...investors expressed their lack of confidence in Carter in more concrete form by dumping dollars and buying gold. In short, they were voting with their money. "We were waiting for an energy program, and the exchange rate reflects the absence of one," commented Leonida Guadenzi, vice president of the Milan Exchange, where the dollar fell sharply against the Italian lira. Added one Milan trader: "When Carter speaks, the dollar plummets...
...decades doctors had tried to divert air from the windpipe back up into the blocked-off pharynx. But such efforts inevitably failed; food and water would get into the windpipe, causing choking. In 1969 Dr. Mario Staffieri of Piacenza, near Milan, Italy, tried a new approach, inspired by a famous case in medical annals. Forty years earlier, a Chicago iceman, suicidally depressed by the loss of his voice after a laryngectomy, had plunged an ice pick into his throat. Instead of dying, he regained the ability to speak; he had accidentally pierced the esophagus wall in a way that gave...
...Corporation has approved the appointment of Alessandro Pizzorno, professor of Sociology at the University of Milan in Italy, as Krupp Professor of European Studies, a tenured position vacant for the past four years...