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Giulio Andreotti, a seven-time Italian premier and reputed crime-fighter, was indicted for allegedly consorting with the mafia over a lifetime. The 76-year-old Andreotti, Italy's leading postwar statesman, is the highest Italian official ever to be tried on mob charges. "It's really a tremendous charge," says TIME Rome correspondent Greg Burke. "They're claiming that he was a full-fledged member of the mafia. If it's true, it's a terrible indictment of Italian society." Building their case on testimony from Mafia turncoats and former members of Andreotti's Christian Democrat party, prosecutors painted...
During his six years as Senate majority leader, Maine's GEORGE MITCHELL never presented himself as one of Congress's more magnetic leaders. But the publicly stolid statesman, who gave up his seat last year, must have maintained a very different dating persona. In an upcoming Vanity Fair interview, Mitchell's new wife HEATHER MACLACHLAN, formerly an agent for tennis pros, recalls their first meeting this way: "Right away he seemed so special. I could sense his individuality, his sense of humor. It was obvious that he had so much confidence in himself as a human being...
When the Harvard Business School Club of New York presented Baker with its Business Statesman Award in 1970, it praised him as "the quiet builder with the soft voice and iron resolve, the man who welded rather than hammered, the decision maker of the school of decision making...
...ceremony in his hometown of College Station, Tx. Gramm told reporters in Atlanta today that he'll follow his kickoff speech with a swing through Georgia, where he was born, and then the early primary states of New Hampshire, Iowa and Arizona. Gramm, the combative elder statesman of the Republican Party's conservative wing, is a close ally of House Speaker-elect Newt Gingrich.Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...
...this is something of a triumph for someone who, just two decades ago, viewed composition from the other side of the musical fence. As a critic for the New Statesman and the Spectator, Nyman was a trenchant observer of the avant-garde (in 1968 he coined the term minimal music to describe the emerging Minimalist movement) and in 1974 brilliantly surveyed the field in his book...