Word: rome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Time Out named three new CIA employees in the U.S. embassy (in 1975 Time Out printed the names of 62 CIA people with a chart of their embassy offices). At week's end a new Italian daily, la Republica, front-paged the names of seven CIA agents in Rome. Just two weeks ago, the newsweekly Cambio 16, one of Spain's leading magazines, fingered seven CIA agents in the American embassy in Madrid. Washington fears that CIA operatives in West Germany will be uncovered next. It has reached the point, a U.S. diplomat at the Paris Embassy sarcastically...
...decree that resulted from their concern is no wholesale syllabus of sexual depravities. Instead, it singles out those "erroneous opinions" that Rome considers are spreading and causing confusion in the ranks of the faithful. Three areas of sexuality that have caused particular difficulties for Catholics-as indeed for many other Christians-are given major treatment...
...rescue squad mopped up the remains of Pier Paolo Pasolini, 52 years old, poet, filmmaker, and social agitator, from the ruts of the dirt road in the early hours of Sunday, November 2nd. By that afternoon, all Rome knew that one of her most famous artists-in-residence had been found mangled in the midst of the slums of Ostia, a Roman suburb, on a strip of earth between huts of corrugated tin. That he had been beaten to death in a brawl with a (male) prostitute, a seventeen-year-old streetwalker. Monday Rome was in an uproar. L'Unita...
...Pasolini was, then, a political phony, a mediocre poet, an opportunist filmmaker capitalizing on the Roman desire for circuses with lots of blood and sex, and if his death was such a senseless piece of violence--why all the fuss? Was the shock expressed by all Italy, and especially Rome, merely political propaganda of the PCI, melodramatics of the intellectual elite, and bloodthirsty scan-dalmongering on the part of the greater public? Of course all this contributed to the clamor, but there was something else behind the strong reaction of the students who marched through Rome in mourning, the political...
Lectures and conferences keep Mayer traveling around the world. "There are some weeks," explained Marquand, "when I'll see him on Monday and Wednesday and won't even know that he was in Rome in the interim...