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...barrage: a series of ads In U.S. and European newspapers warning petroleum buyers that Texaco Inc. would "pursue all legal remedies to recover crude oil illegally taken from it in Libya." Almost Immediately, the attack began. Texaco and Standard Oil of California sued in Italy to recover from a Sardinian refinery a total of 640,800 bbl. of crude. The companies contend that the oil was pumped from their concessions in Libya and sold by the government of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in violation of their contract rights...
...celebrity and voluble charmer, is characteristically energetic and impatient. By contrast, Umberto so detests partygoing that friends say his marriage to Antonella Piaggio, whose family makes Vespa motor scooters, broke up three years ago partly because of her active social life. To relax, Umberto spends weekends sailing off the Sardinian coast, where he keeps a home, often with Girl Friend Allegra Caracciolo di Castagneto, a first cousin of Gianni's wife...
...without incident. Last week, in the course of another excursion out of Rome, the Pontiff experienced his first hostile encounter. It came from, of all people, Italians. During a nine-hour visit to the island of Sardinia, Paul and his motorcade became involved in a battle between police and Sardinian anarchists in which rocks and fists flew. Uninjured and safely back in Rome, the Pope next day leveled an unusually caustic criticism-somewhat reminiscent in tone of Vice President Agnew-at Italian newspapers for having headlined that single incident when his reception in Sardinia had been overwhelmingly favorable...
Spanish Influence. Rome's Daily American describes Berlinguer as "a movie type caster's idea of an Italian radical." He is slight, wiry, crewcut, courteous but cool in manner. He has dark, piercing eyes and the swarthy color of a Sardinian (Catalan influence in his native Sardinia accounts for his Spanish-sounding name). He is served well at interminably long party meetings by another physical attribute: he can sit for hours without getting sore or restless. For this, comrades at national headquarters on Rome's Via delle Botteghe Oscure call him culo di ferro, which roughly translates...
Central Casting would have to type Berlinguer as a white-collar Communist rather than a peasant. His lawyer grandfather was a Sardinian republican in the days of the Italian monarchy; his lawyer father was a socialist anti-Fascist during the Mussolini era. Berlinguer studied law before he decided "to fight for the profound transformation of all social assets" and at 21 joined the Communist Party. Jailed by the Fascists for activities in Sardinia, Berlinguer came to the attention of the party's leader, Palmiro Togliatti...