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Colonel Luciano Rossi of the Treasury Police shot and killed himself June 5 after accusations that he had passed state secrets to Gelli. The next day, onetime Minister of Foreign Trade Gaetano Stammati was admitted under an assumed name to a Milan hospital after suffering a heart attack. Listed as a lodge member, Stammati had been questioned about huge pay offs on oil deals with Saudi Arabia. Rome magistrates have so far advised 260 officials on the P2 list that they are being investigated. Fifteen of Italy's top generals and admirals have "gone on vacation," a euphemism...
Police too came under assault. Officer Frank Rossi tried to help a young white woman who was being kicked. "As I tried to reach for my gun, a guy picked up a huge coral rock and slammed it down on my thigh," Rossi said. "They were all kicking me and calling me names. I was down on my back." Rossi struggled into his car and got away as rocks smashed all its windows. Said National Guardsman Art Chambers, who drove a truck into the riot area to bring food to other Guardsmen: "The sniper fire came...
...Three years ago at a Martini and Rossi international competition in New York I came up against the world champion and 1976 Olympic gold medalist, Frenchman Christian Noel. I was expecting to be razzle-dazzled but he fenced very simply. His execution of basic moves was perfect. In the finals he was doing the same things, very basic, simple attacks that were very cleverly...
...week began with yet another of the terrorists' communiqués, this one demanding the release of 13 leftist prisoners in exchange for Moro. Among those on the list: Red Brigades Chieftain Renato Curcio, 37, now on trial in Turin for armed insurrection, and Mario Rossi and Augusto Viel, two members of a former gang called October XXII who gained notoriety for the killing of a bank guard during a Genoa holdup in 1971. Along with the communiqué came another plaintive, handwritten letter from Moro addressed to Christian Democratic Secretary-General Benigno Zaccagnini. It called the party...
Saturday, April 8: concert--Margaret Rossi, clarinetist, Sally Pinkas, pianist, and Robert Koff, pianist, will play 20th century chamber music. Slosberg Recital Hall, 8:30 p.m., free...