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Libya's ascetic ruler, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, is not known as a connoisseur of humor, especially when it is at his own expense. So a satirical article about him in Turin's La Stampa last month enraged him. "It seems," ran the mock-fan-magazine prose, "that he has an ulcer, it seems that he is a homosexual, that he sleeps on a mattress of tobacco leaves, that he has a harem of 48 wives in Switzerland." Libya immediately demanded that the article's coauthors be dismissed from La Stampa, one of Italy's most respected...
Ordinarily, Libya would have little leverage in such a showdown. But La Stampa happens to be owned by Fiat, a giant industrial conglomerate that is not in the business of offending influential heads of state. Though he balked at firing the reporters, Fiat Chairman Giovanni Agnelli paid a visit to Libya's embassy in Rome, hoping to mollify Gaddafi. Agnelli failed dramatically. Last week the Arab League Boycott Committee in Beirut threatened a ban on all Fiat products in Arab nations unless Agnelli sacks La Stampa Editor Arrigo Levi, a Jew who once fought in the Israeli army. Agnelli...
...unrepentant. "After all," she said last week, "Jackie knew that photographers have shot at that particular location more than once. If she didn't want to be photographed, she should not have exhibited herself." Others, more concerned with taste and privacy, might echo Turin's La Stampa, owned by Fiat Chief Gianni Agnelli, a longtime friend of Jackie's: "Italy would have done better not to publish those pictures...
Since then, Valpreda and his co-defendants have endured a Kafkaesque nightmare: nearly three years in prison without any resolution of their case. Their plight has focused attention on what Turin's moderate newspaper La Stampa called "the injustice of justice" in Italy, and has drawn the sympathy of concerned citizens who have little use for terrorist bombings or anarchism...
Though the Vatican officially kept hands off the highly successful referendum campaign, Rome's conservative II Messaggero charged the Vatican with interference nonetheless. Said La Stampa's Carlo Casalegno: "The anti-divorzisti were able to lean on the church structure, hundreds of dioceses, thousands of religious institutions, and tens of thousands of parishes from Bolzano to Siracusa, in organizing the collection of signatures." Thus, when the referendum takes place, probably next spring, it may emerge as a test of the political power of the church. Right now the church enjoys a slight advantage; a recent poll showed...