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...Marguerite Johnson. Reported by Johanna McGeary/Washington and Roberto Suro/Amman
When the body of Italian Financier Roberto Calvi was found dangling under London's Blackfriars Bridge last June, the coroner's court ruled that he had committed suicide. Yet doubts have Lingered about the grisly end of the onetime president of financially troubled Banco Ambrosiano, who was known as "God's banker" because of his extensive financial dealings with the Vatican. Seven days before his corpse was discovered, Calvi had fled Rome to avoid investigation into illegal dealings and possible imprisonment. He apparently told relatives that he would "name the names" of people involved in the scam...
...Whether the Government beats full responsibility for the crimes of certain rightist elements is difficult to establish. To many observers, it is even more difficult to establish that El Salvador has made any substantial human rights progress in 1982. However, the president has duly certified that the government of Roberto d'Aubuisson is fully eligible to receive approximately $125 million in direct military aid in fiscal year...
...year ago, 74% of the electorate defied guerrilla threats and voted freely for a Constituent Assembly that is expected to produce a new constitution for the country next month. But since the election, U.S. policy has suffered several major reversals. Right-wing elements, led by Constituent Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson, won the upper hand in the Assembly and, in postelection bargaining, tried hard to sabotage U.S.-inspired reforms. The improvement in the observance of human rights in El Salvador is halting at best. Right-wing death squads and trigger-happy armed forces units still roam the country, adding...
...have divorced Martin Scorsese because he wanted me to spend my life between the cookstove and the kids," says Model Isabella Rossellini, 30, daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Italian Film Director Roberto Rossellini. Exit American film director nine years her senior. Enter American Model Jon Weidermann, five years younger than she. "With my new husband it is different," says Rossellini of Weidermann, whom she last week admitted to having quietly married in February. "I will have the chance of becoming someone apart from our life together." Isabella has both her mother's smoky good looks and a predilection...