Word: rome
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Last summer the girl from Portsmouth, Ohio, sang for the Pope in Rome. It was a performance of Mozart's "Coronation" Mass conducted by Herbert von Karajan. "We were in the apse of St. Peter's," she recalls. "The altar is off to our right and a little in front of us. After everyone is in place, the procession begins, and John Paul II is at the end, in full vestments. It's hard to speak of it as a musical occasion. It was a moment in life that one treasures. Oh, it was great to be there...
...Rome, meanwhile, the Craxi government's impending collapse had become almost inevitable. By Wednesday, Spadolini had made it official: he and two other Republican Party ministers were leaving the government. Craxi scheduled a parliamentary debate on the hijacking issue for the next day and observed, "Now everything is more difficult and uncontrollable...
Roman police last week also arrested two other Arabs who arrived at the ( capital's Leonardo da Vinci Airport bearing suitcases, each carrying 7.7 lbs. of plastic explosive. The duo had Moroccan passports similar to those carried by the captured Achille Lauro hijackers. Said Rome Prosecutor Rosario Priore: "We suspect that all these Moroccan passports may be linked. Possibly they come from a single stock made available for terrorist actions...
After the commandos were ordered by Washington to stand down, Stiner refused to give up entirely. When the 737 took off for Rome 17 hours later, carrying Abbas and another Palestinian official, Stiner hopped into a T-39 trainer jet. He took off from a taxiway without tower permission and shadowed the 737 to Rome, where he made an emergency landing. In his resignation speech last week, Prime Minister Bettino Craxi announced that Italy had filed a protest over both the T-39's landing and the pursuit of the 737 by an F-14 to within 25 miles...
...people marched through the streets carrying a banner that proclaimed WE WON'T GO TO THE POLLS, and in the steel-mill city of Nowa Huta, hundreds of youths clashed with plainclothes police. The head of Poland's Roman Catholic hierarchy, Jozef Cardinal Glemp, was conveniently in Rome on election day, and most of the country's 22,000 Catholic priests stayed away from the polls...