Word: rome
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...living descendants. Innsbruck University anatomist Werner Platzer feels frustrated and bewildered: "The Italian ministry has told us that we are not allowed to destroy a bit of the body," he complains. On the other hand, "they say that if no research is carried out, the body must go to Rome for research purposes." As head of the anatomical-research project, Platzer has decided to ignore Rome's objection. This month he will begin doling out minuscule bits of the Iceman for analysis by experts in many nations. "This find is for scientists all over the world," he argues...
...Drogoul was to be sentenced, Congressman Henry Gonzalez, who had been looking into the case for two years, announced that he had a summary of classified CIA cables regarding B.N.L.-Rome's knowledge of the banker's activities. Judge Shoob immediately asked for an explanation. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Urgenson requested that the CIA declassify the Sept. 4 letter so it could be given to Shoob along with the report and the cables that had gone to Gonzalez. According to Urgenson, CIA counsel George Jameson acknowledged that the letter was misleading and asked whether the CIA should redraft it. Urgenson...
...learned that on Sept. 30, the day before Drogoul's sentencing hearing ended, the CIA had discovered six more classified documents relevant to the case. By this time Drogoul had a flamboyant new Georgia attorney named Bobby Lee Cook, who argued that the banker was an innocent pawn of Rome and Washington. An investigation by an Italian parliamentary committee leaned toward the same conclusion. Shoob thus allowed the Justice Department to cancel its plea-bargain agreement with Drogoul. But U.S. prosecutors still believe they were right. Says Brill: "((Drogoul)) had confessed to the crime over and over again...
...guilty, did he act alone? In July 1990 B.N.L.'s president, Giampiero Cantoni, approached U.S. Ambassador Peter Secchia in Rome and asked whether the ambassador could persuade Washington to elevate the U.S. investigation to the "political level." Secchia forwarded the request to Washington by cable. In an interview last week with TIME's Rome bureau chief John Moody, the ambassador insisted that neither he nor Cantoni had meant to interfere with the investigation. Said Secchia: "Taking it to a 'political level' meant that it should go to the Cabinet level. Taking it to a political level doesn't mean take...
Eventually, the Iceman's region and the rest of Europe would catch up with other parts of the world. By 500 B.C., flourishing civilizations had sprung up in Greece, then Rome, and soon spread throughout the Continent. But back when he was plodding through the Alpine passes, the concept of a Eurocentric view of civilization would have been laughable, especially to the sophisticated societies that were thriving in Africa and Asia...