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...traced the poisoned Barbera to Giovanni Ciravegna, 57, and his son Daniele, 27, who run a wine-distribution outlet in Piedmont. They were arrested on multiple charges of manslaughter. Police suspect that the two men bought the adulterated wine from Antonio Fusco, a vintner from the southern region of Taranto. But Fusco insists that he is innocent, claiming "an act of sabotage has been carried...
...coastal factories. Inland, the dumping of industrial wastes has become so chronic that Milanese rice, once the staple of every decent risotto, grows poorly if at all on hundreds of thousands of once fertile acres. Cities that were built for walking and carriages are now, like Rome or Taranto, choked with Fiats. Traditional patterns of circulation die as the arcades vanish and piazzas become parking lots. The historic centers crumble or are converted into desolate museums unto themselves, while industrial suburbs like Scandicci, outside Florence, erode the once harmonious transition between the urban and rural landscape...
Looking rather like a visitor to Dante's Inferno, Pope Paul VI last week stood before a blazing blast furnace and watched as sputtering molten iron ore was poured into ingots. The Pope was visiting the Italsider steel plant in the Southern Italian town of Taranto, where, true to a promise he had made last month, he celebrated Christmas Eve Mass for 7,000 steelworkers and their families. In his sermon, delivered from an altar made of rolled steel slabs, Paul deplored the "separation and lack of understanding" that divides the worlds of labor and religion. "It almost seems...
...Pope last week was also concerned about estrangement within the church. Shortly before his visit to Taranto, he announced that he was summoning a second synod of bishops to meet in Rome, starting next...
...that an old, rusty piece of iron unearthed beneath an Antioch church was the lance with which the Roman soldier had pierced the side of the crucified Christ, the Crusaders, half-starved and crazed with religious fanaticism, swept out of the city and routed the Turks. Afterward, Bohemond of Taranto ordered the severed heads of captured Turks roasted on spits, "encouraging the rumor that the Prankish barons fed on human flesh," and so spread terror among the demoralized infidels. Within a year, the Crusaders had carved out for themselves feudal principalities in Syria and Palestine...