(1) SCORSESE'S "JOURNEY THROUGH ITALY" SCREENED AT 
SYDNEY,  AUSTRALIA  FILM FESTIVAL
    Scorsese pays homage to his Italian Heritage.   
(2) ITALY CANCELS MOZAMBIQUE'S TOTAL OUTSTANDING DEBT
    Follows on Bolivia's Debt cancellation this past week.
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(1) SCORSESE'S "JOURNEY THROUGH ITALY" SCREENED AT 
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA  FILM FESTIVAL 

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese paid homage to his country of origin with "My 
Journey Through Italy" being presented at the Sydney Film Festival in 
Australia. 

In a four-hour anthology of segments from 30 Italian films, Scorsese begins 
with the spectacular "Cabiria" and then focuses on Luchino Visconti and 
Roberto Rossellini's neorealism film classics, then on Vittorio De Sica and 
Michelangelo Antonioni and ends with Federico Fellini. 

For Italian-American Mr. Scorsese this represents a journey in search of his 
esthetic formation as a movie director through his ethnic Italian heritage. 
The Sydney Festival presented over 140 feature films, documentaries and short 
movies from 39 countries.
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(2) ITALY CANCELS MOZAMBIQUE'S TOTAL OUTSTANDING DEBT 

The Italian government has canceled 100% of the debt Mozambique owed the Bel 
Paese. The sum amounts to $524 million as disclosed by the president of the 
Italian Cabinet. 

The agreement was signed at Palazzo Chigi in Rome by Foreign Affairs 
Undersecretary Alfredo Mantica and Mozambique's Foreign Minister Santos 
Simao, in the presence of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi and Mozambique's 
President Chissano. 

Mr. Berlusconi, speaking to President Chissano, said, "Italy's priority is to 
cooperate in the development in the nation of Mozambique."