Word: bucharest
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...court in St. Poelten, near Vienna, gave a former student at a Catholic seminary in the city a six-month suspended jail sentence for possessing child pornography. A day earlier, a papal envoy investigating wider allegations of sexual impropriety shut down the college. In the Frame ROMANIA Prosecutors indicted Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu and 79 other officials on charges of fraud in relation to the sale of state-owned ships in the early 1990s, at an alleged loss of €275 million. Basescu, Transport Minister at the time of the sale, said the charges were politically motivated...
Children's Crusade ROMANIA Parliament approved a bill severely restricting international adoption following pressure from the E.U. - which Romania hopes to join in 2007 - to crack down on child trafficking. The U.S. embassy in Bucharest suggested many children could end up living in institutions as a result...
...principle to station U.S. troops on its soil. For poor countries only recently emerged from communist rule, the prospect of closer ties with Washington is a powerful enticement: "I have been waiting for the Americans since I was a child," says retired engineer Corneliu Ribu, 74, who lives in Bucharest. "I thought that they would never come." In Germany, rumors that U.S. troops may be leaving in large numbers sent shock waves through some regions. The Rhineland-Palatinate, home to Ramstein air base, organized a committee to convince the Pentagon that staying was cost-effective. "The U.S. forces bring around...
Later in the half, Peljto stole the ball away from Edit Skoze, one of Herzogenburg’s two 30-something year old six-footers out of Bucharest, Romania, and passed to senior point guard Bev Moore, who dropped a three-pointer for a 69-40 Harvard lead...
...property on the black market. When Abu Ranin threatened to alert Baghdad, he says, the officer rolled over. Abu Ranin would not say what information the man provided. Abu Ranin's greatest coup, he says, was in Romania. As he tells the story, he discovered a mukhabarat officer in Bucharest who had two useful qualities: he oversaw the regime's East European agents, and he had a weakness for prostitutes. Posing as a wealthy businessman based in Europe, Abu Ranin befriended the officer. He rented a villa and threw a private party with five prostitutes and ample alcohol. The mukhabarat...