L'Unita' to be liquidated

(ANSA) - Rome, June 12 - Lossmaking leftwing daily l'Unita', long the big-selling bible of the once-powerful Italian Communist Party (PCI), is to be placed into liquidation.
    But it will not be closed, the publishers NIE said.
    The daily, once required reading for progressive Italians, has gone through repeated crises while the PCI morphed in successive stages into the ruling Democratic Party.