Word: rome
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Unable to stop the march, Marcos backed off. Police and soldiers stayed out of sight except around the presidential Malacañang Palace. Demonstration Organizer Agapito ("Butz") Aquino, Ninoy's brother, had feared that the centerpiece of the celebration, the statue, cast in Rome by Philippine Sculptor Tomas Concepcion and flown to Manila via New York City, would be deliberately held up by Philippine customs and had readied a similar statue made of plaster. But after a two-day standoff, during which the bronze was kept at the airport, Marcos ordered $3,970 in duties waived and the figure...
...when Ratzinger's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will begin an interrogation of Boff to decide whether retractions should be required. It will be the first notable face-to-face grilling of a scholar since left-wing Father Edward Schillebeeckx of The Netherlands was summoned to Rome in 1979. The Boff case could prove far more important, since a movement is on trial as much...
Mexico City's desperate problems can be solved only by creating a new and distant federal capital. There are precedents for this. Constantino moved the seat of his empire from Rome to Byzantium...
...Vatican, however, has decided to press the issue. At Rome's instruction, Nicaraguan Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega last week reported that he has asked three of the priests to decide be tween their jobs and the priesthood in accordance with canon...
...allies were preoccupied with the mystery of the Red Sea mines, repercussions from the gulf war were being felt throughout the region. In the third hijacking involving Iranians since June, two young opponents of the Khomeini regime commandeered an Iran Air jetliner and ordered it flown to Cairo and Rome, where they gave themselves up. In the gulf, after a respite of about four weeks, the Iraqis resumed the tanker war by hitting a Greek ship with an Exocet missile. As in the case of the explosions in the Red Sea, the renewed fighting served as a reminder...