Word: robertos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reported by Johanna McGeary/Washington and Roberto Suro/Damascus
Reported by David Aikman and Robert Slater/ Jerusalem and Roberto Suro/Fez with other bureaus
...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...
...Though he still insists that he was framed in the Franklin affair by powerful Italian state banking interests who would not produce documents that would clear him, he readily admits to being deeply involved in the events that led to the downfall of Banco Ambrosiano and its late president, Roberto Calvi. In a mild, authoritative voice that occasionally erupted into impassioned Italian, Sindona spoke at length with TIME Correspondent Jonathan Beaty, sometimes disputing versions of the story that have emerged thus far and offering revealing glimpses of its protagonists. Some of the statements of Sindona, a convicted felon...
Here she was in 1949: an Academy Award-winning actress, for the preceding three years one of the two most popular female stars in America (the other was Betty Grable), going off to Italy to make Stromboli with Neorealist Master Roberto Rossellini. Soon there were hints that something more than professional respect informed their relationship, rumors devastatingly confirmed by the illegitimate birth of her first child by Rossellini. Her first husband won custody of their child in an ugly divorce action, there was a vicious denunciation in the U.S. Senate, and, finally, what might have been the best years...