Word: sardinia
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...Italian scene helped out with the story. Reporter Walter Galling went to Bologna to cover the speeches of Christian Democratic Party Secretary Benigno Zaccagnini, and Reporter M.J. Wilson traveled to Naples on the heels of the Christian Democrats' ever-happy warrior, Amintore Fanfani. Stringer Maria Ondone flew to Sardinia to interview Berlinguer's relatives, friends and former teachers There she unearthed documents that included his baptismal certificate and an early appeal for free assembly that he wrote (in English) in 1944 to the Allied Military Government in Sardinia when he was secretary of the local Committee of Communist...
...scion of petty aristocrats on Sardinia whose roots go back to that island's Spanish past, Berlinguer, 54, has been Secretary of the P.C.I, since 1972. He has created a new image for the West's biggest Communist Party-that of hardworking, button-down Communists who in no way represent a revolutionary threat to bourgeois voters. The basic election issue is whether the voters will accept this new respectable image. Ironically, the once ideologically passionate Communists are campaigning in the name of efficiency and good government, while the Christian Democrats (at least to some extent the party...
...feints and ruses of special operatives also worked at El Alamein, where Rommel was fooled by planted documents and fake troop movements. Hitler was conned into thinking that Sardinia, not Sicily, would be invaded...
...Gulf-proper. The Christian Science Monitor noted that the voyage was designed, to show that Washington "will not accept any threat to, or interruption of the supply of oil from Persian Gulf States." Two weeks later, 2,000 Marines form the US Sixth Fleet landed in Sardinia in a mock invasion of Arab oil lands. Vice-Admiral Turner told reporters: "We don't want to invade (the Middle East) but we are prepared...
Chapin came to the leadership of the Met after serving as assistant to his predecessor Göran Gentele. After Gentele died in a car crash in Sardinia three years ago, Chapin functioned for an entire season as acting general manager before he was granted the full title and authority. Despite some triumphs, like Boris Godunov and The Siege of Corinth, he has never had the full support of the Met's faction-ridden board...