Word: rome
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets' pre-Geneva rhetoric calculated to create soaring expectations. Having promised that his nation would campaign against Star Wars "at the top of its voice," Gromyko did precisely that in person in Western Europe. During a three-day visit to Rome, he reportedly warned Giulio Andreotti, his Italian counterpart, that U.S. renunciation of its space defense plan was "absolutely essential." Moreover, Gromyko's performance in Rome was merely the opening shot in a propaganda campaign against Star Wars that seems likely to grow even shriller than the "peace" campaign of the early '80s, which was aimed at preventing U.S. deployment...
...editorial vigorously rejected a 1984 German book, Unity of the Churches --Real Possibility, co-authored by the late Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner and Father Heinrich Fries of the University of Munich. The attack was signed by French Dominican Daniel Ols, who teaches at the Pontifical Angelicum University in Rome. Such an editorial does not carry the weight of a Vatican pronouncement, but Ols says that he was asked to write his piece "by the hierarchy," which would mean by key aides of the Pope or even by John Paul himself...
Certainly, the fans in Troy will be little more educated or forgiving than the crowd in Rome...
...earns his living on the motivational lecture circuit (and last year ran for President on the Populist Party ticket). Now the only man ever to take the Olympic pole-vaulting gold twice (1952, 1956) is back on the track in Waco, Texas, preparing for the World Veteran Games in Rome later this year. "I'm training like I've never trained before," says Richards, who turned 59 last week. "I want to get off a 13- to 14-ft. vault." After years of using rigid steel poles, Richards must adjust his skills to the new, springy fiberglass type...
Repercussions from the surge of the dollar were political as well as financial. In Rome, Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi called a special meeting of several Cabinet ministers to discuss what could be done to protect the lira. Said Lamberto Dini, the director general of the Bank of Italy: "Everyone is concerned, both in Italy and in Europe, because what is emerging is an unsustainable pattern of exchange rates." During her scheduled meeting with President Reagan in Washington this week, Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher intends to press for assurances that the Administration will take early steps...