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...Italy is in the grip of a serious crisis, and the labor movement must do everything in its power to solve it," Georgio Napolitano, member of the secretariat of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), told an audience of 250 listeners last night...
Architect William Pereira reckons incorrectly that the Pacific Mutual building in San Francisco will be the first high-rise office structure with openable windows to be built in the U.S. since World War II [March 6]. Many have been built with openable windows. The U.N. Secretariat building is one; completion date...
...dispatched "Brigades of Friendship," consisting of military, ideological, security and medical cadres, to Angola; in Mozambique, the East German "diplomatic" mission has become the largest in the country, exceeding even that of the Soviet Union. East Germany's increasingly complex African operations are now handled by a special secretariat in East Berlin, headed by Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade Alex Schalk...
...credibility of the Socialist Party, already tarnished in leftist circles by its pragmatic moves to the right, was further hurt by a scandal involving Edmundo Pedro, who resigned last week as a member of the party secretariat and head of the national television network. Pedro was arrested for illegal possession of 35 G3 automatic rifles, various pistols and ammunition. He claimed he got the weapons from the military, which handed them out during the aborted 1975 leftist uprising. Last week the army chiefs of staff confirmed that arms had been distributed to "democratic elements" when "totalitarian forces"-meaning the Communists...
...additional funds. Within a few minutes, a courier-who doubles as a stablehand at Belmont-arrived with cash. As he handed the money to the clerk, he glanced through the window at the big winner. "Hi, Doc," the stablehand said. The salutation was for Dr. Mark Gerard, veterinarian to Secretariat during that Triple Crown winner's racing days and a familiar face to Belmont backstretchers. The chance encounter with the courier was to prove very troublesome. Three weeks later, a Uruguayan newspaperman called the Jockey Club steward at Belmont and told him that the horse in the winner...