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...David Creditford -- "a con man who thought he was smarter than anyone else," a defense attorney recalled to New York Newsday. Stevens reputedly suffered from emotional instability -- at his 1987 trial he launched into a speech about Jimmy Cagney. More seriously, in 1992 local merchants Susan Katz and John Spinelli filed a police complaint when, they say, after nine months of harassment that included cruising their block and stealing their garbage, Stevens threatened to burn their business down...
...third blast, which sent a fireball hundreds of feet into the air. Some 30 people were injured, and the blaze that followed burned for more than ten hours before exhausted firemen were able to bring it under control. "I thought it was the end of the world," said Ralph Spinelli of Staten Island, who stood on his porch and watched 55-gal. drums fly into the air and burst like bombs. "I think it's a miracle that no one was killed...
...assembly will be organized not on national but on party lines. The Socialists, led by Brandt, are expected to win about 130 of the 410 seats. The Christian Democrats, with Tindemans bidding for leadership, are counting on around 100 members. Italy's Altiero Spinelli, a former Common Market commissioner and now a Communist candidate, says that parliamentary majorities will be formed "by country on some issues, by party on others, and on others by Europe itself...
Among three generals elected was Nino Pasti, former NATO deputy supreme commander for nuclear affairs, who ran for the Senate as an independent on the Communist ticket. Former EEC Commissioner Altiero Spinelli and all six of the prominent Roman Catholic laymen (plus a Waldensian priest), who defied Pope Paul VI by running under the sign of the hammer and sickle, also won seats in Parliament. Narrowly defeated, however, was Communist-sponsored Independent Gillo Pontecorvo, the film director whose credits include The Battle of Algiers...
...their Senate candidates is Nino Pasti, 67, a retired four-star general who formerly served as NATO's Southern Europe Air Force Commander. "They are fully reliable," insisted Pasti of the Communists. "It's a democratic party; I am convinced of that." Common Market Commissioner Altiero Spinelli, 68, meanwhile, became a surprise Communist choice for the Chamber of Deputies. Spinelli, a former Communist and political prisoner under Mussolini, became his nation's most celebrated European federalist after the war. "Italy is taking a gamble with the Communists," Spinelli admitted last week from his Common Market office...