Word: romano
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...siestas and can be curt with aides who lack his sense of punctuality. Last week he caused mild pandemonium at the U.N. by arriving 14 minutes early for a meeting with Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. He is fond of attractive women but is close to his family: Wife Carmen Romano, an accomplished pianist, Daughters Paulina, 20, and Carmen, 23, and Son Jose...
...Jonestown, Guyana, is a ghoulish cautionary tale for these people who, in these differing ways, are seeking God in a secular world. In that search for God, it is all too easy to blunder into the arms of Satan instead." Added the Vatican news paper L'Osservatore Romano: "Christianity is a religion of life, not of death." West Germany's Stuttgarter Zeitung philosophized less cosmically: "It was not just a symptom of America or its system's shortcomings. Mystic sects and pseudoreligious groups exist in this part of the world as well and in worrisome numbers...
...will direct the country's battered economy: Harvard-educated Economist Manuel José Cabral, 41, as Finance Minister; Eduardo Fernández Pichardo, 41, former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Santo Domingo, as head of the Central Bank; and Ramón Báez Romano, 49, a onetime Gulf & Western executive, as Industry and Commerce Secretary. Those appointments indicated that Guzmán is determined to improve his nation's economy. He was intent on improving the military as well. After the inauguration, the new President kept Vance and Young waiting while he purged...
...Rosi uses the documentary style, which places an exaggerated emphasis on certain events in the plot to create a more realistic impression, and uses the common theme of the overgrown police state seen in many recent films. He also contrasts the grandeur of the great halls and monuments of Romano-Italian civilization with the decadence of the morally weak leaders for ironic effect...
Mount Holyoke's Anne Locke won the title with inspiring rounds of 82 and 79. Monica Romano of Amherst finished second...