Word: rome
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...East, including at least 150 multimillionaires in Europe and the Western Hemisphere, make regular and generous contributions to the cause. The movement also earns revenue by operating business enterprises, including a modern $8 million chicken farm in Syria. For a time Palestinians ran a popular and profitable discotheque in Rome. It was shut down by authorities, presumably because it might serve as a target for Israeli counterterrorist attacks...
...anyone wishing to enroll. The sole requirements: a yearly tax of $70 and, for foreign students, a working knowledge of Italian. Since then the number of foreigners has swelled to some 50,000, adding to the swarms of working-class students taking advantage of the new opportunity. At Rome University, for example, enrollment has soared from 88,757 in the 1970-71 academic year to 134,476 in the current year...
...overcrowding has troubled both the universities and the cities that house them. Student violence closed Rome University for eight weeks during the past academic year. Some unemployed university graduates-who account for about 350,000 of Italy's 1 million youthful unemployed-have joined in the terrorism of groups like the "Red Brigades" (TIME, July...
...have been converging on Italy in hopes of doing well enough during the required six-year Italian stint to transfer to a school back home. "We would all have preferred to go to an American medical school," admits Steve Husecki, 26. a graduate of Indiana University now studying at Rome University. "It's a long way to come, and you have to learn another language and cope with another culture...
...there are large numbers of Roman Catholics upset by the innovations since Vatican II. Some Vatican sources think Lefebvre might have a potential flock of 50,000 or 60,000, centered in France, Germany and England. That could produce the biggest rupture since the Old Catholics broke with Rome over the First Vatican Council's decree on the authority and infallibility of the Pope...