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Standing shoulder to shoulder in the hot, crowded Cathedral of San Petronio in Bologna last week, they formed a frieze that has become all too familiar to Italians: the country's political leaders attending a memorial service for terrorist victims. This time there was a tragic difference of degree. The funeral was for those who died in the explosion that ripped through the Bologna train station on Aug. 2, killing 79 persons and wounding at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Bologna's Grief | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

...going on, both in Cuba's training camps and in the field. The job of training Castro's subversion army is handled by Cuba's Dirección General de Inteligencia (DGI), whose comandante, Manuel Pineiro Lozada-known variously as "Red Beard," "M-l," and "Petronio"-oversees everything from guerrilla training to cash disbursements for Castro's Latin American agents. The DGI has trained more than 5,000 Latin Americans in guerrilla warfare, including 500 Venezuelans, 300 Peruvians, 200 Panamanians, 75 Dominicans, 60 Salvadorans. Trainees receive Guevara's La Guerra de Guerrillas and another handy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: The Petrified Forest | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

...Naples. Italy, 45-year-old Petronio Morandi, eating grapes while he read a newspaper, picked up a small electric light bulb, swallowed it whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Mouthful | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...meeting of the Sociedad Espanola to be held at 8 o'clock tonight, in the Assembly Room of the Union. Senor Jose Petronio Katigbak will deliver an address in Spanish upon "La Moderna Literatura Filipina on General y enEspecial is Moderna Poesia Filipina." Senor Katigbak is a graduate of the University of Santo Tomas, Manilla, and has been an associate in King's College, London...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sooiedad Espanola Lecture Tonight. | 3/4/1904 | See Source »

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