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...years old, poet, filmmaker, and social agitator, from the ruts of the dirt road in the early hours of Sunday, November 2nd. By that afternoon, all Rome knew that one of her most famous artists-in-residence had been found mangled in the midst of the slums of Ostia, a Roman suburb, on a strip of earth between huts of corrugated tin. That he had been beaten to death in a brawl with a (male) prostitute, a seventeen-year-old streetwalker. Monday Rome was in an uproar. L'Unita, the paper of the Paritito Communista Italiano (PCI) glorified Pasolini...
Died. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 53, maverick Italian film director, poet and novelist; after being bludgeoned with a fence post and run over by his own Alfa Romeo driven by a 17-year-old boy whom he had picked up; in Ostia, Italy. A Marxist with a nostalgia for Catholicism, and a known homosexual, Pasolini managed to rouse the wrath of Italy's Catholics and Communists alike. In 1961 his first major film, Accattone, drew clerical criticism for its romanticizing of pimps and prostitutes. Three years later Pasolini made The Gospel According to St. Matthew, which angered the left with...
...terrorists, the new strategy is to deter such attacks with massive shows of force. But even security men admit that such demonstrations are not totally effective. Terrorists travel around Europe as easily as tourists nowadays, and they have already shown that they can obtain missiles. Raiding an apartment at Ostia near Fiumicino last September, Italian secret service agents discovered two 4½-ft. Strelas, whose heat-seeking warhead can knock down a low-flying jet up to two miles away. The apartment had been rented by a 23-year-old Arab who carried Lebanese and Jordanian passports. He and four...
...time. But it is an open question among intelligence agencies whether Gaddafi himself directly orders such terrorism. Many European authorities would just as soon not find out, since Europe is so dependent on Arab nations for its oil. Thus, after two of the five Arabs arrested in the Ostia incident were released pending trial, they disappeared; Italian authorities have shown no inclination to pursue them...
These statements and many other things, among them new and remarkable sayings from the lips of Jesus, appear in an ancient papyrus lately unearthed in the ruins of a Roman villa at Ostia Antica. The papyrus is a copy of the legendary "Q Document," the source book for the four Gospels, as well as a new account of Jesus' life written by his brother James. Its existence is known only to the small group of scholars who have prepared the translation and to a few wealthy men who are financing publication of a Bible containing the new revelations...