Getty risks `embargo,' Italy warns

Felch, J., and Frammolino, R. (2006) ‘Getty risks `embargo,’ Italy warns’, Los Angeles Times, 11 November.

ROME — Frustrated by the J. Paul Getty Trust’s refusal to return a prized statue of Aphrodite and a score of other antiquities, Italian officials are threatening to impose an unprecedented “cultural embargo” on the Los Angeles museum that would prevent its borrowing any artwork from or conducting research in their country.

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