Word: rome
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...Maronites, with some 500,000 members. A rugged mountain folk and the most martial of Lebanon's Christians, the Maronites take Suleiman Franjieh their name from John Maron, a learned monk who was Patriarch of Antioch in the 8th century. The Crusades brought the Maronites closer to Rome, and in the 1700s they were formally united, thus reinforcing their long and dearly held association with the West...
Juan Carles, who comes from the centuries-old Bourbon dynasty, was born in 1936 in Rome, where his family moved during the Spanish Civil War. He returned to Spain at age nine and was educated in the military and the law. His wife, Princess Sophia of Greece, has a Ph.D. and reportedly teaches at the University of Madrid. The couple has three children--two daughters and a son--in high school in Madrid...
...evening when the sleek blue Alfa Romeo pulled up before the large two-story house at 20 Via Sud-africa in a prosperous section of Rome...
...rear window. A single bullet ripped through the rubber and thin-metal frame holding the window in place, striking the head of American Leamon R. Hunt, 56, director general of the Multi-National Force and Observers in the Sinai. Hunt died within minutes of his arrival at Rome's San Giovanni hospital...
...many Italians to hope that the group had been neutralized. Instead, it seems that terrorism may be once again on the rise in Italy. Shortly before Hunt's assassination, a repentant Red Brigades leader warned on national television that the organization is "alive and they will strike in Rome." On the day of the Hunt killing, Prime Minister Bettino Craxi sent a report to parliament on the growing danger of resurgent terrorism in Italy linked to the turmoil in the Middle East...