Word: rome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went away to Rome last Oct. 3 as Karol Wojtyla, a Cardinal-Archbishop warmly admired by his countrymen but little known elsewhere in the world. Last week he returned in triumph as John Paul II, a dynamic new Pope whose skill, originally tried and proved in day-by-day contest with Poland's Communist rulers, would be tested once again...
...flight from Rome to Warsaw, John Paul was able to eat hardly any breakfast and told the 60 reporters and photographers on his plane that he would need to "contain my emotion" during the trip. As soon as the papal jet landed, black-robed Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, 77, the Primate of Poland, mounted the steps into the plane. John Paul's shrewd former mentor has maneuvered for three decades to guide the Polish church through the darkest days of Stalinist repression into an era of uneasy coexistence with the country's Communist rulers. The extent of the church...
...LaBelle. The next day Lance and others got another bank to loan Mitchell $100,000 to partially cover the check. A couple of weeks later a third bank made a $100,000 loan to Mitchell. During that period, Mitchell also arranged a $175,000 loan from a bank in Rome, Ga., to cover overdrafts there owed by the Bert Lance for Governor Campaign Committee, but the money was actually used to pay back campaign overdrafts in Calhoun...
...this is Friday, that must be Rosalynn Carter in Rome, tossing coins into the Trevi Fountain to ensure another trip to the Eternal City. With daughter Amy in tow, the First Lady made a whirlwind six-day tour of Geneva and Rome last week, meeting with World Health Organization experts to discuss mental health, and for 35 minutes at the Vatican with Pope John Paul II. Leaving the papal study in long dress and veil, the First Lady said: "He's such a wonderful person, it was a great thrill for me." The Pope was obviously moved as well...
...violence is not likely to produce the result that the Red Brigades seek. At week's end, every major Italian party, including the Communists, joined in a Rome rally to demonstrate solidarity against political violence and a determination to try to end Italy's raging epidemic of terrorism. So far this year, the tally of terrorist acts, from bombings to kneecappings to bank heists, stands at an astonishing 865 incidents...