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Obituary: Giovanni Leone
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ON THE evening of 15 June 1978, the Italian head of state Giovanni
Leone and his wife Vittoria sped out of the presidential palace in an
official car, heading for their villa outside Rome and self-imposed
obscurity.
Hours earlier, Leone had told the nation that "for six and a half
years you've had an honest man as president". But for months, the
left-wing press had been publishing allegations that he had lined his
pockets with bribe money handed out by the US military aircraft maker
L...
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