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...native of Lanciano, east of Rome, De Luca bursts with an Italian passion for style, which insinuates itself into Logitech's curvaceous product designs. When executives bring him a prototype, "his face glows," says David Henry, a senior vice president. A smoker since he was 15, De Luca likes sneaking outside to light up with employees. "It creates a kind of complicity that allows me to find out what people really think," he says...
...that the whole process is tainted. Their failure to vote could leave the post open indefinitely. On a windswept afternoon last week in the Square of the Republic, an American official working for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (O.S.C.E.) invoked the democratic tradition of Athens and Rome to urge Serbs to turn out. "It's about you," read a huge billboard behind him. "Vote! December 8!" Few passersby paid attention. With candidates like Seselj gracing the ballot, many would prefer to look the other...
...SENTENCED. GIULIO ANDREOTTI, 83, senator for life and one of Italy's most powerful postwar leaders who served seven times as Premier; to 24 years' imprisonment for collusion in the 1979 Mafia murder of an investigative journalist; in Rome. His conviction, which over-turned an acquittal on the same charges three years ago, sparked heated criticism from sup-porters like Premier Silvio Berlusconi, who is currently on trial for corruption charges. "Andreotti" said Berlusconi, "is the victim of justice gone mad." Andreotti plans to appeal, though he is unlikely to face jail time given...
...reports that they had been plotting a cyanide-gas attack in the London Underground. But newspapers said they had received the information from security sources, suggesting that different arms of the government were not in sync. The British weren't alone in fearing chemical weapons. The U.S. embassy in Rome was awaiting the arrival of "escape hoods" - protective gear worn over the head and shoulders to allow staff to escape a chemical attack - for all of its over 700 employees as part of a new State Department program to supply its overseas stations with safety garb. And security agencies...
Clark was an erudite man. The 24-year-old was born in Rome and spoke Italian, German and French fluently. At Wesleyan College he was Phi Beta Kappa and during World War I he served as a special agent in the U.S. Dept. of Justice. He received a masters’ degree in Philosophy at Harvard in 1918 and was in the third year of his Ph.D. program when he was summoned before The Court. Altogether, Clark taught about 100 students in his sections...