Word: rome
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...Rome, Italian Prime Minister Craxi reacted to news that the hijacking had ended by exclaiming, "Thanks be to God, it's over!" Only ten minutes later, in a telephone call to the captain of the Achille Lauro, did Craxi learn that an American hostage had been killed. His government responded by declaring that it would seek extradition of the hijackers for prosecution in Italy...
...Everyone who knows me knows that I do not speak English," insisted Sergei Antonov, in his native Bulgarian. That disclaimer by the trembling, white- faced defendant came in response to pointed questioning by Judge Severino Santiapichi last week at the four-month-old trial in Rome of Antonov and six other defendants; they are accused of conspiring with Turkish Gunman Mehmet Ali Agca to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square four years ago. The question of Antonov's linguistic skills is considered vital to the , prosecution's case because Agca has said that he communicated with...
...questioning, the judge was skeptical that Antonov could have functioned effectively in his job as deputy chief of Bulgaria's Balkan Airlines' Rome office without a working knowledge of English. In fact, one important prosecution witness, former Balkan Airlines Hostess Magdalena Traynova, who now lives in Chicago, said that she once worked with Antonov and was certain that he spoke the language. Said Traynova: "I couldn't myself have gotten my job without English...
Joining Della Terza will be Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, visiting professor of comparative literature and of romance languages and literatures, Brown University professor Franco Fido, and University of Rome professors Giulio Ferroni and Augustino Lombardi. Della Terza said all the participants were personal friends of Calvino...
Some high-price, high-quality American shoes have carved out foreign markets. In Italy, Timberland shoes (retail price in Rome: $100 a pair) are such a fad that young thugs have taken to attacking people and stripping them of the American-made footwear. Yet the Timberland factory in Newmarket, N.H., failed to meet its production target last year because it could not pay its workers high enough wages...