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Defense Minister Valerio Zanone promptly stated he had seen no evidence suggesting that an Italian military aircraft had fired the missile. Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita launched a separate inquiry to examine the possibility that non-Italian forces were to blame, although NATO officials, the U.S. and France have said that their aircraft could not have been involved. Zanone's cautious denial, coupled with the fact that key evidence has already been destroyed, prompted press speculation that a government cover-up may have taken place. Commented the Rome daily Il Messaggero: "It's no certainty that we will ever know...
...veiled narrative - like disconnected stills from a Fritz Lang film - from which R.B. Kitaj, in such works as Malta (1974), constructs a new form of history-painting. There is no American equivalent to the cold edgy handling (nightmare as literature, so to speak) in paintings by the Italian Valerio Adami. But the difference especially comes out in "domestic" figurative painting, which seems more complex and problematical - more difficult of approach - in Europe than in America. Hence the extraordinary flavor of the nudes and portraits by Lucien Freud, the 52-year-old grandson of Sigmund: more psychic territory is crossed...
...agencies, Merzagora stalked out and resigned. The state, he complained, was seeking domination of the firm. The news sent ripples of concern through Western Europe's business community. Amid rumors of a drastic organizational shakeup, the company's stock scraped a new low. Investors remembered that Giorgio Valerio, a bitter foe of state encroachment, was ousted as president last April by his rivals in the government...
...small investor in Europe, the rule has long been to put up and shut up. He could buy a company's stock, but for him to complain about the company's management was not done. No wonder, therefore, that last week Giorgio Valerio, chairman of Italy's Montecatini Edison, was in a state of shock. At the annual meeting of Italy's largest private company, the long-frustrated small stockholders angrily showered Valerio with a mixed barrage of small coins, epithets and crumpled copies of the company balance sheet. Their urgent message was that...
...been in India and I know the meaning of passive resistance. We will stay here ten days if necessary." A filibuster was on. Every now and then, somebody would jump up and shout: "Shareholders of Montedison, resist!" The meeting went on for 17 hours until 2:30 a.m. Ultimately, Valerio and the government forces had to accept a stalemate. The proposed rule change was tabled, pending a future session...