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English soccer teams were under virtual quarantine last week in the wake of the Brussels rampage by Liverpool fans that left 38 dead, most of them Italian followers of Juventus, a team from Turin. First the Union of European Football Associations banned all English clubs from playing in European championship tournaments for "an indefinite period." Then the International Football Federation excluded English professional teams from international competition. England's national team was exempted, however, enabling it to remain in World Cup competition. English soccer officials called the global ban excessive...
...outlaw the sale or possession of alcohol in soccer stadiums and on trains and buses that carry fans to games. In Liverpool last week police were examining videotapes of the tragic Brussels game to identify rioters who may face extradition to Belgium. A Liverpool delegation will also visit Turin next week in an attempt at reconciliation with a city where anti-British feeling has been intense in recent days...
...Turin, the home city of at least 10,000 Juventus supporters in Brussels, there was an outpouring of grief. Among the dead was Restaurant Owner Giovacchino Landini, 49. "Why did it have to be him?" cried his daughter Monica, 22. "He was too passionately fond of Juventus." Of the dead, 31 were Italians, including a ten-year-old boy and a woman. Also killed were four Belgians, two Frenchmen and a Briton who was a resident of Brussels. All the dead were asphyxiated or crushed. Ten spectators, all British, were arrested, none for alleged offenses committed inside the stadium...
...cyclones, of course, but experts may be called in to analyze violence in sports or to invent measures guaranteeing that such a horror will never take place again. Not that rational activity is unwelcome after watching tapes of the boys from Liverpool publicly assaulting -- and killing -- the boys from Turin because the Italians were rooting for the wrong team. How does the mind begin to understand this? Bring out Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power and learn that mobs love destroying things, that "in the crowd the individual feels a . . . sense of relief, for the distances are removed which used...
Putting companies together is nothing new for De Benedetti. He earned a degree in engineering from Turin's Polytechnic in 1958 and ten years later took over as manager of his father's flexible-metal-pipe plant, which had just 80 employees. During the next five years, the younger De Benedetti expanded the firm by buying up small, mostly unprofitable companies. By 1976 his company was Italy's largest producer of car components and had annual sales of more than $46 million...