Word: rome
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...Wilson wrote a letter to his friend, Attorney General William French Smith, asking whether Marcinkus was under U.S. investigation as well. Wilson was told by the Justice Department that his actions were inappropriate. Nonetheless, later that year Wilson tried unsuccessfully to arrange a breakfast between Smith and Marcinkus in Rome. As recently as last May, Wilson called FBI Director William Webster to ask about the status of U.S. interest in the case. Wilson was also sternly warned by the State Department in December 1983 to avoid involvement in the case of Commodities Trader Marc Rich, who fled to Switzerland after...
...last week stretched around the block in Rockefeller Center. Travelers waited four and five hours just to get into bureaucracy's front door. A Washington Post editorial writer reported a few days ago that the passengers on her 747, diverted to Hartford, Conn., on the return flight from Rome as a result of bad weather in New York City, were forced to sit on a runway for seven hours because no customs inspectors were on hand to process them...
BORN. To Nastassja Kinski, 23, sultry international film star (The Hotel New Hampshire, Cat People), and Ibrahim Moussa, 37, Egyptian-born film producer, her former agent and her live-in companion since last fall: their first child, a son; in Rome. Name: Aljosha Nakzynski. Weight: 7 lbs. 4 oz. Kinski had refused to divulge the father's name, but Moussa acknowledged his paternity last week...
...energetic Pontiff visited the ancient monastery at Einsiedeln, spoke in four languages and exhorted Swiss bankers to bring lofty principles to the world of high finance. Editorialized the Swiss opinion weekly L'Hebdo: "The Protestants may be a little jealous of Rome's marketing prowess...
...idea, a reaction to the priest-dominated Spanish church, was to encourage the laity to play an important role in the church. "God led me by the hand," he said later. "Quietly, little by little, until his castle was built." Escrivá moved his headquarters to Rome in 1946 to make the movement seem less Spanish and eventually shaped a church subculture through his teachings, including The Way, a collection of 999 maxims ("To be idle is something inconceivable in a man who has apostolic spirit"). Escrivá's personal instructions to followers have remained secret...