Word: roman
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...been killed. But the situation is worsening as the Shi'ite extremists step up their demands. The four Americans pictured in the terrorist photographs were: Terry Anderson, 37, Associated Press Beirut bureau chief; the Rev. Benjamin Weir, 60, a Presbyterian minister; the Rev. Lawrence Jenco, 50, a Roman Catholic priest; and U.S. Embassy Official William Buckley, 56, who was abducted on March 16, 1984, making him the longest-held American captive. A fifth American, Peter Kilburn, 60, a librarian at the American University of Beirut, has been missing since December, but no mention of him was made last week...
...conglomerate with stakes in the aerospace, automotive and chemical businesses, agreed to acquire Signal, an aerospace and engineering company. The deal is valued at between $4.5 billion and $5 billion. The new company, Allied Signal, will have annual revenues of more than $16 billion. Hennessy, 57, a former Roman Catholic seminarian in the Holy Cross congregation and the son of a West Roxbury, Mass., lumber salesman, will run what will be the 16th-largest U.S. industrial company. Shumway will be vice chairman of the new company. Dingman will be named president and in 1990 will succeed Hennessy as chief executive...
...towel wrapped around my head like a turban. He came over to me and he said, "You know, you're really beautiful." I said, "What?" Nobody had ever said that to me before. He said, "You have an ancient-looking face. A face like an ancient Roman statue." I was flabbergasted. I knew that I was interesting, and of course I was voluptuous for my age, but I'd never had a sense of myself being beautiful until he told me. The way he said it, it was an internal thing, much deeper than superficial beauty. He educated...
When Pope John Paul II takes to the road, crowds are almost always huge and the mood celebratory. The Pontiff's magical spell, however, was abruptly snapped in the Netherlands last week during his 26th foreign journey. The Dutch, with 5.6 million Roman Catholics among 14.5 million citizens, accorded John Paul a remarkably unfriendly reception. There were street riots and also barbed comments from his hosts...
...contrast, Rawlings and Sankara lead by example and exhortation. Says the Rev. Samuel Batsa, president of the Accra-based National Union of Catholic Diocesan Priests: "The smiles have come back here in Ghana after a long, long time." Rawlings, the Roman Catholic son of a Scottish father and Ghanaian mother, seized power in 1979, then relinquished it four months later to an elected government. He took control again in 1981, accusing the government of corruption: "There is no justice in this society, and so long as there is no justice, let there be no peace." Since then, Rawlings has moderated...