Word: rome
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...their claims of Catholic disloyalty and subversion. Catholic demands for civil rights and economic parity are therefore easily dismissed by Protestants, not so much out of disbelief, as out of an unyielding conviction that any concession moves Ulster closer to Irish unification. The great fear of the Protestants is "Rome Rule," the religious tyranny and destruction of democracy they consider synonymous with Catholic rule. In its insistence on controlling many aspects of Catholic life, including its positions on divorce and birth control, and in the special relation to the state it maintains in the south, the Catholic Church has done...
...When Rome Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof went back-stage at the Stadt Casino in Basel to seek out Mstislav Rostropovich, this week's cover subject, the famous Russian cellist-conductor gave him a joyous greeting. "My uncle Massimo is a concert cellist," says Amfitheatrof, "and when I introduced myself to Rostropovich, he cried, 'Your face is like Mass-eemo, and Mass-eemo is my dear friend.' It was an invitation to the extraordinary warmth that pours from Rostropovich like lava from some Slavic Vesuvius." Interviewing Rostropovich's many friends and associates for our story...
...skyjacked jetliner reached Dubai on Friday after hopscotching from Rome to Cyprus and to Bahrain-picking up fuel along the way. Bonn implored Italian authorities to find some excuse to delay the airliner at Rome; the Italians, concerned for the passengers' safety, did not comply. At Dubai, the Defense Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Sheik Muhammad bin Rashid al-Maktum, tried unsuccessfully to negotiate the release of women and children aboard. Among them were eleven West German beauty queens who had won free vacations in Majorca...
American steelmakers got a bit more help last week when European producers, meeting in Rome, proposed to set voluntary limits on their sales in the U.S. The Japanese steel industry had made a similar proposal two weeks earlier. American steelmen mostly see the offers as politically inspired attempts to avert more drastic U.S. action against steel and other imports, but the offers nonetheless indicate that the foreign producers realize they may have been pressing their competitive advantage a bit too hard...
Hirsch says the concerns about limits to growth that the Club of Rome has voiced are off target. This informal group of scientists and economists warned of such Malthusian type of world disasters as starvation and over-crowding in the famous Limits to Growth...