Word: rome
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...departure from Ireland was just the first of the many uprootings she faced in her life, as the Joyces moved from Trieste to Rome to Zurich to Paris, facing eviction everywhere they stayed in their early lives together. Money was a continual problem. Although they did not have much money, they used up whatever credit they had and were continually forced to borrow money from Joyce's brother Stanislaus and other friends...
Europe: Christopher Redman London: Christopher Ogden, Anne Constable Paris: Jordan Bonfante, Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Rome: Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Johanna McGeary Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Beijing: Sandra Burton Hong Kong: William Stewart, Jay Branegan Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: Peter Stoler Mexico City: John Borrell, John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez
Crisis time in Rome. Had another government fallen or the lira tumbled? Worse. Thanks to a ruling issued this month by the European Community's Court of Justice, Italy's lasagna may go limp and its fettuccine flaccid. For a nation that eats its pasta al dente, or firm to the tooth, such news is hard to swallow...
...Italians found the ruling indigestible. Said Restaurateur Aldo Di Cesare, who owns a popular Rome eating place and admits somewhat sheepishly that he can consume more than 2 lbs. of pasta a day: "We're going to wait and see what the other stuff tastes like and, if it's better than ours, I for one will buy it." Buon appetito...
...excommunication is Rome's final action against Lefebvre, who opposed the liberalizing policies of the 1962-65 Second Vatican Council and then set up his own seminary in Econe. An agreement worked out last month seemed to herald a reconciliation, but it collapsed three weeks ago. By going ahead with the ceremony, Lefebvre sought to perpetuate his 100,000-member renegade movement, since his newly consecrated bishops can in turn ordain their own priests. Dismissing his excommunication, the Archbishop declared, "I am a bishop of the Catholic Church who will continue to spread the faith...