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Serious connoisseurs of violence, however, should call Massimo Beyerle in La Spezia, Italy, who is accepting bookings for his October War Zone tour of Lebanon. For $25,000, travelers can spend two weeks hunting for shrapnel in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley, visiting the scene of the U.S. Marine barracks blown up in 1983 and dining in a Palestinian refugee camp. Beyerle says he also plans trips to Nicaragua, Somalia and parts of the former Soviet Union...
...nearly everyone connected with the Atlanta branch. In addition, Iraq owes Italy more than $1 billion for warships that were built but never delivered. In a footnote to the gulf crisis, about 90 Iraqi sailors are living on board two of the corvettes at the naval port of La Spezia. Every day they raise the Iraqi flag, rev up the engines and swivel their gun turrets...
There was a time when the 33,000-ton passenger liner Leonardo da Vinci was one of the Italian Line's gems. Last week, after the ship had sat idle for two years in the port of La Spezia, fire broke out on board; when the flames were doused four days later, the Leonardo had leaned over on its starboard side and settled in 40 ft. of water in the port's main channel...
...exports, totaling $240 million last year, include helicopters for Iran (built under license from the U.S.), frigates for Peru, tanks for Pakistan and counterinsurgency aircraft for Zambia and South Africa. James Bond's favorite pistol, the snub-nosed .25-mm. Beretta, is still sold all over the world. La Spezia's Oto Melara company has tested a high-speed missile-launching hydrofoil designed to protect narrow bodies of water. Italian arms appeal to nonaligned nations since Rome attaches no political strings to sales...
...Milan and ten other cities, the Socialists did move away from the Reds even before the apertura, and since then the process was repeated in two more cities. Mantua and La Spezia. But a real split between the parties is a long way off. Last week Fanfani's Christian Democrats demanded that the Socialists officially break with the Communists and ratify the move at a party congress. The Socialists shook the coalition by refusing even to hold such a meeting...