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  Giulio Andreotti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Giulio Andreotti (born in Rome, 14 January 1919) is an Italian political figure, among the most powerful in post-war Italy.
Andreotti has sat in Parliament without interruption since 1946, when he was elected to the Constituent Assembly.
In November 2002 Andreotti was convicted of ordering the 1979 murder of Mino Pecorelli, a journalist who had published allegations that Andreotti had ties to the Mafia.
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 Giulio Andreotti: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Giulio Andreotti (born 14 January 1919) is an Italian (A native or inhabitant of Italy) political figure (additional info and facts about political figure), among the most powerful in post-war Italy.
Andreotti has sat in Parliament (A legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Great Britain)) without interruption since 1946, when he was elected to the Constituent Assembly (additional info and facts about Constituent Assembly).
In November 2002 Andreotti was convicted of ordering the 1979 murder of Mino Pecorelli, a journalist who had published allegations that Andreotti had ties to the Mafia (A crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gi/giulio_andreotti.htm   (553 words)

  
 iafrica.com | news | world news Italian ex-PM found guilty of murder
An Italian court sentenced seven-time prime minister Giulio Andreotti to 24 years in prison on Sunday for complicity in the 1979 murder of a journalist, provoking stunned reactions from senior politicians.
Andreotti was acquitted of the charges three years ago but the public prosecutor's office in Perugia appealed the verdict.
Andreotti is suspected of having met the now-jailed Mafia "boss of bosses" Toto Riina on September 20, 1987, in the Sicilian capital.
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 Biography of Giulio Andreotti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Andreotti did it for one reason, so he could be at the head of the government if the communists came into power.
Andreotti chose to overlook the accusations that Lima was connected to the mafia.
Andreotti is said to have intervened and had cases fixed in the Supreme Court.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Verdict expected in Andreotti appeal trial Friday
Andreotti, 84, denies charges he was the Mafia's main backer in the corridors of power during his long political career.
Andreotti has said he was a victim of a Mafia plot to punish him for crackdowns on organized crime by governments he headed.
Andreotti was sentenced to 24 years in prison in a separate trial in the central city of Perugia last year on charges of ordering the mob murder of a muckraking journalist in 1979.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20030502-0754-italy-andreotti.html   (340 words)

  
 Andreotti, Giulio on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 Encyclopedia: Giulio Andreotti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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Giulio Andreotti (nato a Roma il 14 gennaio 1919) è uno dei più conosciuti uomini politici italiani del dopoguerra, scrittore e giornalista, esponente della Democrazia Cristiana.
Andreotti è stato uno dei pochi politici cui è stata intitolata una canzone: l'autore è Francesco Baccini, nell'album Nomi e cognomi.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Giulio-Andreotti   (2231 words)

  
 Former PM plotted murder and now he's the victim - smh.com.au
In the angry aftermath of the sentencing, only Andreotti has kept a cool head, joking that a 24-year sentence for an 83-year-old is a form of good wishes for a long life.
Andreotti and his Christian Democrat party have been at the centre of Italian politics for more than 50 years, often surrounded by questionable characters and sailing close to the wind - but demands for parliamentary inquiries into his activities had always gone unanswered.
For Andreotti, the murder and the Mafia accusations, which were first levelled in 1993, meant the end of his career.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/11/22/1037697876122.html   (807 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Giulio Andreotti: Mr Italy
Andreotti went on to serve seven times as Italian prime minister between 1972 and 1992 and was a member of practically every Christian Democrat Italian government between the end of World War II and his retirement from active politics.
Andreotti's political standing suffered a blow in early 1992 when the Christian Democrats mustered a poor showing in legislative elections.
Allies such as Washington admired Andreotti because his political durability showed that despite appearances Italy, a key member of Nato, was a model of stability.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/483295.stm   (575 words)

  
 Malta Today
Giulio Andreotti, 83, seven times Italian premier, has been invited to Malta by AZAD to deliver the first of a series of yearly lectures in honour of former Prime Minister Giorgio Borg Olivier on 3 November at the Auberge D’Aragon.
Giulio Andreotti’s career, unlike that of many of his contemporaries, shows him to be a master juggler, ready to make alliances with all, and never allowing himself to be thought of as right wing, centre or left.
Andreotti has appealed the decision and is not expected to spend time in prison because of his old age.
www.maltatoday.com.mt /2003/10/27/l3.html   (1012 words)

  
 ITALY'S ANDREOTTI & MAFIA LINKS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Andreotti "belongs to a certain Jesuitical, clerical tradition in which you accept that in a fallen world you have to work with the material at hand," Gerardo Bianco, an old parliamentary colleague of Andreotti's, told me a few years ago.
While Andreotti had been an important government minister before his alliance with Lima, his ability to reach the very highest levels of power was related to the transformation of the Andreotti faction into a truly national group.
The mayor of Palermo, one of Lima's proteges, was forced to resign, and Andreotti's Sicilian faction was badly on the defensive.
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 Guardian | The man who knew too much
Mr Andreotti is expected to appeal to Italy's supreme court and is not considered guilty under Italian law until that court has returned its final verdict.
Mr Andreotti's lawyers say neither the short nor the long version of the document was capable of doing serious harm to the resilient Christian Democrat leader.
Mr Andreotti and his political rival Bettino Craxi, the Socialist Party leader, confirmed as much when they each suggested that the other was responsible for its "chance discovery" in 1990.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4550638-105806,00.html   (953 words)

  
 Telegraph | News
GIULIO ANDREOTTI, the seven-times former Italian prime minister who was acquitted two years ago of charges of having Mafia ties, is to go on trial again today for the same crime.
The original case against Mr Andreotti was launched on the basis of testimony by a number of Mafia super-grasses who said that he had met Mafiosi and even godfathers.
The question of whether Mr Andreotti knew the two men or not was considered crucial for the prosecution's case, since the Salvos were said to have been his channel to the Mafia leadership.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/04/19/wand19.xml   (484 words)

  
 ITALY'S ANDREOTTI & MAFIA LINKS
Andreotti was finally cleared of all charges, and a prison sentence of 24 years, by the Italian supreme court on 30th October 2003.
In typical fashion, Andreotti tried to brush off his relations with Pecorelli when he appeared before prosecutors in the case, by recounting a humorous anecdote, which revealed, nonetheless, that he was fully aware of Pecorelli's threats.
Andreotti seems convinced that someone in the US is directing the "conspiracy" against him, although this, too, makes little sense: the Mafiosi in the US witness-protection programme were the last to accuse him, after the investigation was well under way.
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 CNN.com - Ex-Italy PM launches murder appeal - Nov. 18, 2002
Ex-Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti is to appeal against his conviction for ordering the death of a journalist.
Andreotti, 83, was sentenced on Sunday to 24 years for asking the Mafia in 1979 to kill reporter Mino Pecorelli.
Andreotti, who has held every top job in government and was prime minister seven times, denies the charges and says he was framed by the Mafia.
cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/11/18/italy.andreotti   (304 words)

  
 Andreotti jail term stuns Italy - smh.com.au
Andreotti, 83, has always denied Mafia allegations that he ordered the 1979 murder of an editor of a political magazine that exposed political scandals.
The allegations against Andreotti involved Aldo Moro, a former prime minister who was kidnapped and killed by urban guerillas in 1978.
Churchmen likewise leapt to the defence of the devout Andreotti.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/11/18/1037599362613.html   (576 words)

  
 Italy: Two Provocations With Global Impact
In the Andreotti case, the Anglo-American connection is evident, and the news of the sentence was greeted with shock and rejection across the Italian political spectrum.
According to Buscetta, Andreotti is supposed to have commissioned the murder of journalist Mino Pecorelli in 1979 (when Andreotti was prime minister) because Pecorelli allegedly threatened to publish pages out of DC leader Aldo Moro's prison diaries, during his Red Brigades captivity (before they killed him), which would be compromising for Andreotti.
Andreotti received public messages of support from Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi; from the heads of the Chamber of Deputies and Senate, Casini and Pera; from the head of the Bishops Conference, Cardinal Ruini; and—extraordinarily—from Italy's President, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.
www.larouchepub.com /other/2002/2947italy_destabil.html   (2151 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Ex-Italian Premier Andreotti acquitted on Mafia killing charge
ROME –; Former Premier Giulio Andreotti was acquitted Thursday of charges he ordered the Mafia killing of a journalist in 1979, with Italy's highest court wiping out the veteran politician's previous conviction.
In 1993, a Mafia informer told authorities investigating organized crime that Andreotti and convicted mobster Gaetano Badalamenti – already serving 30 years on drug charges in the United States – were involved in the Pecorelli case, prompting the inquiry.
Andreotti has maintained that cases against him were false, saying he was targeted by mobsters getting even for his crackdowns on organized crime.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20031030-1143-italy-andreottitrial.html   (439 words)

  
 CNN.com - Andreotti set for murder acquittal - Oct. 29, 2003
Giulio Andreotti, who served seven times as Italian prime minister, looks set to be cleared of murder charges after a prosecutor asked the country's highest court on Wednesday to annul a previous verdict.
Andreotti's lawyers had taken the case to the Court of Cassation after an appeals court in the central city of Perugia sentenced him to 24 years in prison last November.
The case against Andreotti in the murder of Pecorelli, who was shot dead in Rome, was based on testimony of a Mafia member who turned state's witness.
cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/10/29/italy.andreotti.reut   (384 words)

  
 Giulio Andreotti Biography / Biography of Giulio Andreotti Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Giulio Andreotti was born in Rome on January 14, 1919.
When Italy was liberated in 1944 the young Andreotti became a member of the national council of Democrazia Cristiana (DC), the Catholic political party.
In those same years Andreotti solidified his already prominent position by becoming one of the closest collaborators of Alcide De Gasperi, the Italian premier an.....
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 USATODAY.com - Former Italian leader sentenced to 24 years   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
ROME (AP) — An appeals court Sunday overturned the acquittal of former Premier Giulio Andreotti in the 1979 slaying of a crusading journalist and sentenced him to 24 years in prison.
Andreotti has denied involvement in the slaying and said the allegations came from political enemies and mobsters angered over his crackdowns on organized crime.
"The 24-year sentence imposed on Senator Andreotti is the ultimate stage of a judicial scheme through which politicized sectors of the magistrature have tried to change the course of democratic politics and try to rewrite Italian history," Berlusconi said.
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 Andreotti fights back on Mafia allegations - theage.com.au
Former Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti made an impassioned public rebuttal of allegations that he had been an accomplice of the Mafia.
Mr Andreotti, whose conviction shocked Italy and brought widespread calls for a radical reform of the justice system, said the dozens of Mafia turncoats who gave evidence against him should not be treated as oracles.
Mr Andreotti's long appeal to the court was a last-ditch attempt to rebut the prosecution's allegations of systematic collusion with the Mafia in return for votes and favours.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/11/29/1038386308331.html   (454 words)

  
 CNN- INTERVIEW WITH GIULIO ANDREOTTI - Sept. 26, 1995   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Delaney: " We are here in Rome, Italy, with Giulio Andreotti, senator for life, seven time Prime Minister, the most important political figure in post-war Italy; now accused of years of ties to the mafia.
Andreotti: " My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing.
Andreotti: " If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against any other well known person, I don't know that he wouldn't have a strong temptation to do this.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/Newsbriefs/9509/9-25/pm/interview.html   (593 words)

  
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As to Andreotti (seven times Prime Minister), he has had to defend himself in two different trials: one in Palermo (where he was accused of having favored Mafia operations) and one in Perugia (where he was accused of having ordered nothing less than the assassination of a newsman at the hand of a mafioso).
Andreotti was convicted as "instigator" of a murder.
Yet Perugia’s judges sentenced that, since Andreotti was the only one who would benefit from Pecorelli’s death, "it was logical" that he should be considered responsible for that death.
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 NYU Press
Seeing ourselves through others' eyes is often instructive...[Prime Minister Giulio] Andreotti, a fixture of postwar Italian government, brings [to this examination of U.S. politics] a keen mind and the perspective of a political system in which charisma is suspect...
[Andreotti] will be judged by historians to be, warts and all, one of Italy's, and Europe's, truly remarkable statesmen.
Giulio Andreotti has been Prime Minister of Italy six times and a member of cabinets for twenty-three of the last thirty- one years.
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 Giulio Andreotti, der Fintenreiche, muß als Alleinschuldiger herhalten   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Immer enger zogen sich die Maschen der Justiz um den inzwischen 80 Jahre alten Giulio Andreotti zusammen, erst in einem Prozeß in Palermo, dann in einem zweiten in Perugia.
Es geht in den Prozessen um den Vorwurf, der christdemokratische Politiker Andreotti habe enge Kontakte zur Mafia unterhalten und sei in zwei Fällen in Morde verwickelt.
Giulio Andreotti, den italienische Karikaturisten gerne als listenreichen Fuchs zeichneten, eignet sich geradezu ideal für die Rolle des Schuldigen.
www.welt.de /daten/1999/05/04/0504fo65699.htx   (626 words)

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