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Only hours after he had been sworn into office last week, Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini abruptly encountered his first test in the uses of power. Angry labor leaders were threatening to paralyze the country with a general strike if the Italian industrialists' association unilaterally broke a six-year-old agreement linking wage increases to the official inflation rate. Both sides were adamant; a clash seemed inevitable. Spadolini spent the night threatening and cajoling until the industrialists' association, Confindustria, agreed to meet again with the government and the unions to discuss all aspects of rising labor costs...
...initiates were sworn to secrecy and, according to the oath, "to aid, comfort and defend my brothers in the order, even at the risk of my life." Former lodge members have said that while some may have joined the group for reasons of self-aggrandizement, others may have hoped to form an alternate power structure capable of deterring any future Communist participation in Italy's government...
...cold war was at its height. A young John F. Kennedy '40 was sworn in as president, and Alan Sheppard became the first American to enter space. The Peace Corps-sent its first troops overseas. the threat of nuclear war hung precariously over the globe. At Harvard, more than 4000 students rioted to protest a decision by then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 to print diplomas for the Class of '61 in English rather than in Latin...
...Republic of Zambia, once held steadfastly to this belief; in fact, he helped free his colony from the English yoke through non-violent means in the '50s and '60s. A devout Christian--his father was a preacher--committed to non-violence, but also a leader of his people and sworn to ameliorate their welfare, he did not know how he should lead. Thus he found "satyagrah," the creative use of non-violent resistance as a strategy for change, "a life belt thrust into the hand of a drowning men." It worked in Zambia, but his confidence in this strategy waned...
Lieutenant Governor William O'Neill, 50, was sworn in as Grasso's successor. A former state legislator and house majority leader, O'Neill will finish the two years left in her term. He is expected to continue Grasso policies, including a commitment to avoid levying a state income tax. He is known more for skills at behind-the-scenes compromise than for the high-profile leadership of his predecessor. Ella Grasso, Connecticut's favorite daughter, will be a hard act to follow...