Word: roman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bomb that exploded, probably prematurely. Nine Protestants, including Michelle Baird, 7, and Leanne Murray, 13, were killed -- along with Begley himself. The reply came three days later at 7:30 a.m. Two Protestant gunman fired long bursts from automatic weapons into a group of city sanitation workers in largely Roman Catholic West Belfast. Two Catholic men were killed; five others were wounded. More killings followed. All last week the two communities were burying their dead and waiting nervously to see where this round of violence, one of the worst in years, would lead them...
After a successful campaign to defeat another country, a Roman emperor would force the king he had humiliated to parade, in chains, before the victors. In early October, the same kind of spectacle took place in Moscow. The humbled losers were not the defeated defenders of the White House, who capitulated with their hands over their heads. Boris Yeltsin's victims were instead the smiling leaders of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, who appeared before President Boris Yeltsin at the Kremlin to announce they would join the Commonwealth of the Independent States. The architect of this "class reunion," Defense Minister Grachev...
...concrete perspective for bringing new Central European democracies into NATO." In a Washington speech last week, he cautioned that it "will be a lengthy road and we need to act gradually, carefully and flexibly." In the same speech Worner made a curious comparison between NATO and the Roman Empire, each providing "guarantees of security for its member countries." True, perhaps, but the problem with the Roman Empire was that it was a threat to the tribes and nations gathered sullenly on its periphery. Like the Roman Empire at its height, NATO no longer stands toe to toe with an enemy...
While Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds cautioned against hoping for an "overnight resolution," he and British officials expressed interest in a fresh peace initiative for Northern Ireland. Advanced by two prominent Roman Catholic leaders in Ulster, the still secret proposal appeared aimed at arranging a cease-fire that in turn could lead to the inclusion of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the outlawed I.R.A., in direct talks with the British and Irish governments and the political parties in Ulster...
...million so far, most of it from Swiss bank accounts. This amount is clearly just the beginning. Duilio Poggiolini, a former Health Ministry official, for example, is accused of having taken $125 million in gold and silver ingots, gold rubles from the Czarist era, Krugerrands, diamonds and ancient Roman coins. Poggiolini is in jail in Naples; under questioning, his wife referred to the stash as "the savings of a lifetime...