Word: unita
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...reported that she was well and that data about her physical condition were being radioed to earth. On the seventh day the Russians reported as usual on the motions of Sputnik II but did not mention its famed passenger. Two days later Italy's Communist newspaper L'Unita reported that the dog had been killed by a drug in her last portion of food...
...void. The farmers were all but bankrupt. The valley workers had lost more in crop shares than they could hope to regain in years of unremitting effort with hoe and spade. But the Communists had won their strike and reaped their harvest of hate. Crowed the Italian party organ Unita: "We have entered a new phase of major labor warfare...
...beach near Rome in April 1953 very nearly brought down the government of then Premier Mario Scelba. Because of it, the chief of Italy's national police, the chief of the Roman police force and Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni resigned. When the Communist daily L'Unita solemnly declared that the Montesi case was a symbol of the moral bankruptcy of "the entire clerico-capitalist regime," millions of Italians agreed...
Last week the Italian Communist Party organ Unita printed a dispatch from its Budapest correspondent suggesting that if the U.S. would request it, Hungary's puppet Premier Janos Kadar would be happy to grant Mindszenty a safe-conduct allowing him to leave both the legation and Hungary. To these officially inspired Communist overtures, there was a noticeable absence of response by both the Vatican and his U.S. hosts...
...lack of funds. Government opponents in the Senate feared a loss of tourist trade. (Said one opera stage director: "Tourists come to Italy to see the Pope, the Colosseum and opera. Next they'll tear down the Colosseum to make a parking lot.") The Communist paper L'Unitaá meanwhile played the story as the tragedy of the poor workingman forced to foot the bills for "the luxuries and extravagances" of opera stars paid $1,500 a performance (actually a lot less than was paid 30 years ago). Tenor Mario Del Monaco volunteered to accept...