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...speech, on top of the growing troubles in the front negotiations, was enough for Argentina's navy. Headed by Rear Admiral Jorge Julio Palma. 46. commander of the Puerto Belgrano naval base, a group of officers wanted an end to all talk about elections, argued for the ouster of Guido as President and the establishment of a "benevolent dictatorship" that would attempt to stabilize the economy and "normalize" the political situation. Though his forces were small-25,000 navymen and 17,000 marines, compared with 87,000 men in the army and 22,000 in the air force-Admiral...
...legal protection against "irresponsible firms." Klipstein may yet get his wish-at least in part. Along with foreign drugmakers. the big Italian pharmaceutical houses have grown fed up with the pirating of formulas by small competitors. "It's about time Italian manufacturers got some patent protection," roars Franco Palma, the president of Squibb's Italian affiliate. "We put millions into developing new products, and someone comes along and turns out the same thing without spending a cent on research...
...exciting contrasts, the heroic score was never overwhelming, always deft in its handling of a myriad of descriptive effects. And the weightiness of the theme was relieved by occasional touches of humor, most strikingly with the singing of the three-headed Geryones (Tenors Pier Francesco Poli, Pieo de Palma, Sergio Pezzetti), which sounded a little like Tnrandot's Ping. Pang and Pong in flamenco...
Last year's princely book was The Leopard, written largely in his 60th year by the late Giuseppe di Lampedusa, Duke of Palma. The current entry in the duke-of-the-year club is Ippolita, written by 75-year-old Alberto Denti di Pirajno, Duke of Pirajno. The resemblances between the two novels do not end there. They are both set in the 19th century amid the first revolutionary stirrings of Italian unification. To match The Leopard's feudally lavish autocratic hero, Don Fabrizio, there is the new book's feudally parsimonious autocratic heroine, Ippolita. Both books...
...people, 900,000 are officially classed as totally destitute, 1,200,000 more "semi-destitute." In Palermo, a recent neighborhood survey found 498 people (74 of them infants) crowded into 118 rooms. There was only one toilet in the whole area. In the villages, life is no better. In Palma di Montechiaro in western Sicily, 65% of the inhabitants are illiterate, live mainly in shacks or caves...