Word: virginio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great losers in all this are Lech Walesa and the other Solidarnosc leaders. They are out of jail, but--without strong support from the Church--they have fallen into oblivion. In 1983, Virginio Levi, Director of the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, was fired for writing an editorial saying what the Church would not admit: that Walesa and Solidarnosc had been sacrificed...
While much of the evidence points intriguingly toward Bulgarian and potentially Soviet complicity, it is still mostly circumstantial. As a result, the Italian authorities are treading very carefully. "It is a matter of extremely serious facts," Interior Minister Virginio Rognoni said last week, but up to now only "evidence, not proof, has emerged...