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Giandomenico Picco would have been justified if he had tried to grab some of the limelight that fell on Terry Anderson and his fellow liberated hostages as they emerged into freedom. Instead, the tall, dapper mediator stood in the background, saying nothing about the key role he had played in securing the captives' release. As the point man of U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar's seven-month campaign to resolve the hostage crisis, Picco had engaged in a series of daunting covert missions to Shi'ite strongholds in Lebanon to bargain with the captors. At times he disappeared...
Described by Perez de Cuellar as "more of a soldier than a diplomat," Picco was a natural choice for the dangerous assignment. The Italian-born Picco, 43, first worked for Perez de Cuellar in Cyprus with the U.N. ! peacekeeping forces in the 1970s. He joined the Secretary-General's personal staff in 1982, and was part of the team that negotiated the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. Once pragmatists in Iran's government concluded that the hostage crisis had to be resolved, the first man they turned to was Picco. They trusted him because of his evenhanded role as head...
...capital's normally thriving crime rate was down 30%; there were simply too many cops on the streets. The police presence was also meant to prevent any follow-up terrorist attack, although that deterrent failed to stop Red Brigades gunmen in Turin from shooting and wounding Giovanni Picco, 46, the former Christian Democratic mayor...
...cancer specialist; she for the third, he for the second time; in a highly informal ceremony conducted by her 85-year-old father over the dining room table at his Flat Rock, N.C., home, followed by a civil marriage in Washington. Carl's wedding presents: one donkey, named Picco, three goats, named Rama, Rowan, and Fleur...