Word: robertos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these pictures tell a story? Yes, a little one, about Jack and Zack (Waits) and the chatty Italian murderer (Roberto Benigni) they meet in prison. Planning their escape or simply getting to tolerate each other, they are three shaggy humans looking for a way out, and they communicate their anxiety through a kind of existential slapstick: Godot meets the Three Stooges. If you can get into the rhythms of Waits' disk-jockey patter, Benigni's fractured English and Lurie's sullen explosions, you may find Down by Law mildly ingratiating. Otherwise you will sympathize with the jailbirds as they mark...
...advancing in politics as well as religion. Roberto Formigoni, 39, a Christian Democrat and a founder of C.L.'s political arm, the Movimento Popolare, was elected in 1984 to the European Parliament with heavy C.L. support and then voted president of the Parliament's political affairs committee. In Italy's 1985 municipal elections, C.L.-backed candidates were voted into nearly 1,000 positions, including deputy mayor of Milan...
This is not the first time that the State Department has bristled at foreign policy meddling by Helms, whose rhetorical bark outweighs his political bite. In 1984, when the Administration was successfully backing Moderate Jose Napoleon Duarte for the presidency of El Salvador, Helms loudly supported Far Right Candidate Roberto d'Aubuisson, who was reputedly linked to the country's death squads. More recently, Helms has assailed Mexican officials as being corrupt and dealing in drugs when State was trying to cool the cross-border feuding...
...prospered, the value of Libya's stock in the company has multiplied to an estimated $2.5 billion. Not surprisingly, Libya has no interest in ridding itself of what has proved to be a very good investment. Says Agnelli: "We have offered to buy, but they won't sell." Adds Roberto Nicolello, Fiat's chief of public affairs: "We're handcuffed. The Libyans are not interested in selling for one simple reason: Where can they put this money? No one will accept $1 from Gaddafi these days...
...more pleased with the company's progress than Chairman Roberto Goizueta, 54. Says he: "My job is not to be right. It is to produce results." The Cuban-born executive, trained as a chemist, has generated criticism aplenty since he took the helm in 1980. Some of that controversy began well before he tampered with Merchandise 7X, the secret Coke formula that has been kept under corporate lock and key ever since the soft drink's invention...