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...hostility toward immigrants extends far beyond the points of entry. On Feb. 2, an Indian immigrant was beaten and set on fire by local youths in Nettuno, near Rome. Last month, two unidentified men in Athens threw acid on the face of a Bulgarian migrant worker. Xenophobia and competition for scarce jobs was blamed for the rampages last summer in South Africa that killed scores of immigrants from Zimbabwe and Mozambique...
Last summer Ellen and Peter Derber, 58 and 64, of Manistique, Mich., invited their granddaughter Christine, 10, on a trip to Italy. Taking a day off from their Interhostel tour, they visited the American cemetery at Nettuno, where Ellen's uncle--a soldier killed near Anzio 20 days after the 1944 invasion of Italy--is buried. "Christine accepted the seriousness of it," recalls her grandfather, "knowing that under every cross or Star of David was someone who sacrificed their life just so we could do what...
Citation: "His brilliant leapfrogging military tactics, so successfully imitated in the Korean War, enabled his legions to overcome a stubborn foe in treacherous battles the length of Italy. His was the burden and his the honor of Sicily, Anzio, Nettuno and Rome...
Fitted with a mask of wax, Saint Maria's skeleton had been brought to Rome for public veneration from her home town of Nettuno, near the Anzio beachhead of World War II. The ceremony had to be moved out of the basilica into St. Peter's Square because of the great crowds-estimated by the Vatican radio at 500,000. Pope Pius XII, robed in scarlet in honor of Maria's martyrdom and wearing the triregnum, his three-tiered crown, spoke from a portable throne to a throng that stretched before him for a quarter...
...through a long series of monotonous missions, bomber escort or fighter-bomber jobs. For six months the men never saw a German plane. But the outfit was pulling itself together, acquiring confidence and smoothness, developing good flight leaders, and piling up combat time. When its chance came again, over Nettuno, the squadron was veteran, well-led, sure of itself...