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...cynically dispatching their national treasures all over the world, like greeting cards. France sent the Mona Lisa to Japan; Los Angeles is asking Italy for the Riace bronzes to promote the 1984 Olympics. "We must have the courage," declared the former Italian Minister for Arts and the Environment Vincenzo Scotti in a speech in New York last November, "to send our most precious masterpieces out of the country." It would be better to pray for the divine gift of cowardice and fly the audience to Italy instead...
...cameras were waiting when Hetrick arrived at 4 p.m. Benedict assured Hetrick that the $1.8 million would be in the room shortly. Hetrick said he was "ready to go." It was not until 7:45 p.m., however, that yet another self-styled drug distributor, actually DEA Agent Gerald Scotti, arrived with Vicenza. Hetrick was wary, but in Scotti's briefcase, which was placed on a Plexiglas coffee table, was a vast amount of cash...
...tricky part of any drug deal: the exchange. Hetrick said the cocaine was secreted in a car. Arrington, Hetrick's gofer, drove the C.I. and Scotti to the Van Nuys Airport in the San Fernando Valley. Arrington parked the car and went off to get the drug-loaded auto. He soon arrived in a Chevrolet Caprice. He reached under the dashboard, flipped a switch?and the back of the rear seat flipped forward. "Go ahead, take a look," Arrington told Scotti. The agent found a number of large brown packages wrapped in masking tape. He pierced one with...
Thus Rather was visibly taken aback when, at 10:26 a.m. E.D.T., Cairo Bureau Manager Scotti Williston told him by phone, on the air, that her sources were reporting "that the President has passed away." Wary of repeating the egregious blunder that all three networks made in reporting the death of Reagan Press Secretary James Brady on the day the President was shot last March, an agitated Rather kept pressing Williston, hard. Were her sources reliable? They were, said the imperturbable Williston, who, before her assignment to Cairo in 1979, was CBS News' deputy foreign editor. No official word...
Free of the Chop. For power, Scotti had two 115-h.p. engines stacked on his stern; for a hull, he had one of the new "tunnel" designs developed by his countryman Angello Molinari. The hull consists of an airfoil-like center flanked by two pontoons. Their effect is to lift the boat out of the water and allow it to ride free of the chop on a cushion of air. In the straightaways, Scotti's black-and-yellow striped boat blasted over the waves at more than 100 m.p.h. By the 3 p.m. gun, he had averaged an incredible...