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Within days of the death in late May of Umberto Agnelli, the patriarch of one of Italy's leading business families, Giuseppe Morchio made his move. As mourners continued to pay their last respects, the chief executive of the Fiat auto and truck company that is the core of the Agnelli family fortune demanded to be given Umberto's title of chairman as well...
...DIED. UMBERTO AGNELLI, 69, chairman of ailing Italian automaker Fiat; of cancer; in Turin, Italy. Agnelli, the dynasty's quiet member who took the reins after the death last year of his dashing older brother Giovanni, had been helping turn around the troubled company...
Within days of the death in late May of Umberto Agnelli, the patriarch of one of Italy's leading business families, Giuseppe Morchio made his move. As mourners paid their last respects, the chief executive of the Fiat auto and truck company that is the core of the Agnelli family fortune demanded to be given Umberto's title of chairman as well. To the family, it seemed like a blatant power grab, and when its members replied, "No, grazie," he quit in a huff. The top job went instead to Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, the head of Ferrari...
...Italian dies," just before he was shot through the neck. And the third tape, sent to the al-Arabiya network in Dubai and broadcast in Italy last Monday, preyed on the nation's hopes and fears in a cruel, subtle way. It showed the three survivors, Salvatore Stefio, Umberto Cupertino and Maurizio Agliana, perched on a couch in what looked like a living room. They had been dressed in clean white Arab clothes, appeared healthy and composed and had a spread of local cuisine before them. Stefio looked at the camera and said, "We haven't suffered any physical harm...
...Rendezvous in Black? his bitter protagonist decides to kill, not the five men responsible for his girlfriend?s death, but the person each of the presumed guilty men loves most, so that they will live out their lives in grief, as he has. (In 1972 Italian director Umberto Lenzi filmed the novel - without this poetic twist, or much else in its favor - as ?Sette orchidee macchiate di rosso? / ?Seven Blood-Stained Roses...