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...William E. Smith. Reported by Robert Slater/Jerusalem and Roberto Suro/Beirut
...body of a man was found hanging from London's Blackfriars Bridge, his toes just touching the surface of the muddy Thames. The dead man's pockets contained some $13,000 in various currencies, as well as 12 lbs. of bricks and stones. He was identified as Roberto Calvi, 62, the president of Banco Ambrosiano of Milan, the largest private banking group in Italy, with operations in 15 countries. Authorities in Italy, in the Vatican and throughout the international banking community were stunned by the news. Calvi, who had disappeared mysteriously from Italy a week earlier...
...Marguerite Johnson. Reported by Robert Slater/Jerusalem and Roberto Suro /Beirut
Reported by David Aikman/ Jerusalem and Roberto Sum/ Beirut
...biggest Italian bank scandals of modern times last week got bigger. Struggling to unravel the mystery surrounding $1.2 billion to $1.4 billion missing from Milan's Banco Ambrosiano, Italy's eleventh largest bank, and the apparent suicide in June of its president, Roberto Calvi, Italian authorities tried to serve notice on three of the top officials of the Vatican bank that they were under investigation for possible bank fraud. Among them was American-born Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, 60, the president of the bank, which is officially known as the Institute per le Opere di Religione (I.O.R.), or Institute...