Abruzzo News: 16 June 2001

16 June/giugno 2001
MESSAGGERO - Ortona and the forgotten heroes - Ortona e gli eroi emarginati
A small Native American tribe occupied Piazza della Repubblica, Ortona, yesterday. Mister Steve McKenzie Chief was sitting in the center and youths with war colors danced around. The chief is a former combatant in the 1943 Ortona battle, the youths descendants or relatives of other soldiers from the I Canadian division. They were protesting against the exclusion from all benefits of Indian American soldiers.

16 June/giugno 2001
IL CENTRO - - Scriptwriter Margadonna's documents donated / I documenti di Margadonna donati dagli eredi
MediaMuseum in Pescara received a donation of documents of the late historian and scriptwriter Ettore Margadonna from son Daniele and widow Desy. Among the items, original scripts of such films as «Pane, amore e fantasia»poems, articles, a bronze by Ossi Kzinner. Ettore Margadonna, born in Palena in 1893, worked with the greatest Italian film directors of the time: Alessandro Blasetti, Mario Soldati, Alberto Lattuada, Dino Risi.