Word: tarcisio
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...intended to blow them all to kingdom come with a trench mortar. Eight men were accused and quickly convicted: Antonio Riva, wealthy, high-living Italian trader who once boasted he could do business under any kind of Chinese regime, and Ruichi Yamaguchi, a scholarly Japanese bookseller-death; Italian Bishop Tarcisio Martina, 64, longtime head of the Roman Catholic diocese of Yihsien in Hopei province-life imprisonment; four foreign-born old China hands and one Chinese businessman-prison terms ranging from five to ten years...