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Your article "The Great Vatican Bank Mystery" [Sept. 13] was a cheap shot. Banco Ambrosiano, with small I.O.R. holdings, can hardly be called a Vatican anything. Roberto Calvi was probably guilty only of greed and poor judgement. Italy's leaders, who are anticlerical, should not be allowed to divert attention from their economic bungling to the thin Vatican connection. Banco Ambrosiano is just another example of the weakness of the world banking system...
...bury the dead, word spread that the militiamen were returning. Thousands of screaming Palestinians poured out of the camps and ran toward downtown Beirut. It is one thing to have escaped a massacre. It is quite another to escape the memory of it. -By George Russell. Reported by Roberto Suro/Beirut
...Small Business Administration is trying to help American merchants ride out the crisis by establishing a $200 million assistance program that includes Government-backed loans at 14.5% interest. Many sinking border businessmen see this as scant support. "We don't want SBA aid," says Calexico furniture-store Manager Roberto Platero. "We can take care of our own if we could find some way to exchange the pesos." But a meeting of several U.S. and Mexican Governors in San Diego a week ago produced no solutions...
...talks with the government's representatives continued, the guerrillas apparently dropped some of their demands, including a call for U.S. military advisers to leave the country. President Roberto Suazo Córdova, after visiting the scene, predicted a peaceful end to the standoff. So it was. At week's end, the guerrillas released their last 34 hostages and were flown out of the country to an undisclosed destination...
...furor that high military and security officials whose names were found on the rolls were forced to resign; so was Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani, though he was not a P2 member. Gelli's name was also linked to the collapse of Milan's Banco Ambrosiano, whose president, Roberto Calvi, was not only a member of P2, but was believed to be the lodge's paymaser, allegedly funding right-wing Latin leaders who were friends of Gelli...