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...objections, Graham A. Martin, then U.S. Ambassador to Italy, secretly paid $800,000 in 1972 to Vito Miceli, a right-wing general who headed Italy's military intelligence agency. The money was to demonstrate U.S. support of Italian antiCommunists. According to a story in Turin's La Stampa, the $800,000 for Miceli was small potatoes: the paper claimed that one of its reporters had obtained secret documents from Pike's committee showing that the CIA had given Italian political parties $74 million from...
...Nixon's farewell "was more of an inaugural address than anything else") and astonishment at the resilience of American institutions. Nixon's departure, said Vorwärts, the weekly journal of West Germany's Social Democratic Party, was "a deliverance." Headlined Turin's daily La Stampa: AMERICA HAS WON, NIXON RESIGNS...
...Soviets are not alone in their sanguine view of a U.S. foreign policy without Nixon. Even before his resignation, there was a spreading conviction abroad that Nixon's role in American foreign policy, creative though it was, had largely been played out. Said La Stampa: "He pulled America out of Viet Nam, reestablished normal relations with the Soviet Union and China, and saved the devalued dollar. . . But to carry out the new international Realpolitik, Nixon is no longer necessary. He has done his part." Although they credit Nixon with having made the breakthroughs, Europeans would just as soon have...
Editorialized Turin's La Stampa: "It is perhaps the most dangerous and dramatic crisis since the war." Added Milan's Corriere Delia Sera: "This crisis is different. We are running the risk of a total collapse of the economic system...
...referendum has signaled Italy's turning from its traditional Mediterranean, clergy-dominated past toward the modern, secular social idea of northern Europe. That, at least, is what the vote meant to Turin's staid newspaper La Stampa. After the results were in, it ran a banner headline: ITALY IS A MODERN COUNTRY...