Controversial journalist Oriana Fallaci began her career with '' L'Europeo '' . First with celebrity interviews , covering Hollywood in the 1950s and 1960s , but progressing rapidly to war correspondent , covering the Vietnam War and the Middle East . In 1968 , she was shot as she was covering an army massacre of student protesters in Mexico . In the years 1969 to 1972 '' L'Europeo '' published a series of her challenging interviews with prominent politicians such as Golda Meir , Indira Gandhi , Henry Kissinger , Yasser Arafat , Deng Xiaoping , Fidel Castro and Ayatollah Khomeini . The interviews were often translated and published in the world 's most prestigious publications . She harangued Kissinger into calling the Vietnam War " useless . " Kissinger once said that the interview with Fallaci was " the single most disastrous conversation I ever had with a member of the press . " Its decline started in the second half of the 1970s , when Tommaso Giglio left as chief editor in 1976 . He wanted to compete with '' L’espresso '' and '' Panorama '' but the publisher was not willing to invest the necessary money . Due to falling sales during the late 1970s , the magazine changed to a small format in 1981 . By the early 1990s it regained some ground but was eventually forced to close in 1995 . The last issue , in the spring of 1995 , was a ‘ special ’ in the same format and graphic design as the first large news format
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