Word: rome
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Monetary problems, notably the chronic U.S. balance of payments deficit and the international role of the dollar, will be one of the shared difficulties Nixon must discuss in each of the capitals he visits-London, Bonn, Rome, Paris. There are many others: the state of NATO, Soviet adventurism in Eastern Europe, the volatile Middle East, Britain's continued isolation from the Common Market, the proposed treaty banning the spread of nuclear weapons that some nonnuclear powers-notably West Germany-have feared might cut them off from peaceful applications of atomic technology. Also, Nixon wants to sound out the Atlantic...
...strike-ridden Italy, everyone, it seems, has something to protest. Last week it was the magicians. A score showed up for a demonstration in front of Rome's crowded Chamber of Deputies building, having abundantly proved their powers by finding parking space nearby (180 others scheduled to attend failed that elementary test). The petition they presented to Premier Mariano Rumor requested that one thing which magicians admittedly cannot grant themselves: professional status and the government-paid pensions that it brings...
...persuasion, the magicians threatened to hypnotize the police en masse, or, alternatively, offered to solve Rome's horrendous traffic problems. So far, neither suggestion has budged the government. The protest leader was the Magician of Tobruk, who takes his name from a childhood prediction of his father's wartime death in the Libyan city. Said he: "All we want is recognition, then we'll show what we can do. If they want spells, we'll show them...
...magic is another's malocchio (evil eye), Italy's status-seeking magicians are encountering the problem of union men everywhere. Solidarity is unattainable, because no magician will admit that anyone but himself and a few of his close friends possesses true powers. The Magician of Rome, for instance, considers last week's demonstration organized by his Tobruk rival to be highly unprofessional, though he agrees with its aims: "Too long have we been taken for figures of ridicule. We have waited thousands of years for professional status. We can go on waiting...
Cardinal Bea died in Rome last November...