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...1970s and 1980s, a period marked by labor unrest and terrorism. That's one reason Agnelli transferred manufacturing abroad to places like the Soviet Union, Brazil and Turkey, where labor was cheaper and the industrial scene less chaotic than at home. One of those investments, the huge Togliatti plant opened behind the iron curtain in 1970, produced more critics than money, but Agnelli saw a bigger picture: "What we like best of all ... is that a very large number of cars rolling in Russia are Fiats." Even more controversially, Agnelli also later sold almost 10% of Fiat to Libya...
...Atlanta. He worked in the entertainment industry for more than 30 years, starring in TV's Different Strokes and the movie In the Heat of the Night. DIED. ALESSANDRO NATTA,83, Italian Communist Party leader for nearly 40 years; in Imperia. A longtime ally of historic party leader Palmiro Togliatti, Natta unsuccessfully opposed changing the party's name when the Soviet Union collapsed. RESIGNED. DOUGLAS ("PETE") PETERSON, 65, United States ambassador to Vietnam, fueling speculation that he plans to run for Florida Governor against Jeb Bush; in Hanoi. Peterson engineered a U.S.- Vietnam trade deal, which is awaiting the Bush...
Later, there was a similar situation in Italy. Palmiro Togliatti, the Italian Communist leader, was ready to start an armed insurrection. Stalin restrained Togliatti. He warned that an insurrection would be crushed by the American forces there...
...prevent a repetition or escalation of the food protests that reportedly erupted last year at the Gorky and Togliatti auto works, the Soviet leaders are expected to import a record 40 million tons of grain. Some Western experts believe that Soviet ports will have trouble handling such heavy traffic. Much of the grain will come from the U.S., where a bounteous harvest has depressed crop prices and made farmers anxious to sell their surplus abroad. A delegation from the U.S. Agriculture Department travels to Moscov this week with an offer to sell the Soviets 10 million more tons of grain...
DIED. Pietro Nenni, 88, Italian Socialist who, with Christian Democrat Alcide de Gasperi and Communist Palmiro Togliatti, founded the postwar Italian Republic; of a heart attack; in Rome. At 20, the silver-tongued Nenni was jailed for protesting Italy's invasion of Libya; his cell mate was Benito Mussolini, then a fellow Socialist. When il Duce came to power, Nenni, an ardent antiFascist, fled to France and later joined the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. After World War II he served as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in Italy's first postwar government. His alliance...