Not a Minister during Black Monday period

Messrs Salvu Felice Pace and Edward Torpiano both assert that I was a Cabinet minister when Black Monday occurred in 1979 (October 22). They are wrong. Had they bothered to check they would have found that I was out of politics between 1966 and 1981...

Messrs Salvu Felice Pace and Edward Torpiano both assert that I was a Cabinet minister when Black Monday occurred in 1979 (October 22). They are wrong. Had they bothered to check they would have found that I was out of politics between 1966 and 1981 and that in 1979 I was heading the Central Bank.

That doesn't make what took place on Black Monday any less reprehensible. But facts are facts. This is not the first time Mr Felice Pace has been wrong in my regard. Some time ago he alleged in this newspaper that the government had commissioned (i.e. paid) me to head the committee which reviewed special education. I had written back to point out in some detail the fact of the gentleman's deliberate or involuntary error.

He never bothered to correct his unfounded statement, much less apologise for it.

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