Word: rome
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
London: William Mader Paris: Thomas A. Sancton, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Jay Branegan Bonn: James O. Jackson Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney, Ann M. Simmons Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels, Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: Gavin Scott Latin America: Laura Lopez...
...will only be a loss for Russia. The referendum is needed by the Yeltsin team to deflect the people's attention from real failures in the economy. This is in the tradition of our Communist Party bureaucracy. Whenever things went wrong, they tried to distract attention, as in ancient Rome, by providing bread and circuses...
...ever thought that when the cold war ended, one of the losers would be Italy? For more than four decades, the same handful of politicians and parties claimed power as a bulwark against bolshevism. But once the threat of a communist government in Rome fizzled, the cozy coalition system began to implode. In the past year, magistrates have uncovered a spaghetti of corruption -- illicit political payments, bribery, kickbacks and outright thievery -- so tangled that even the tolerant, rule-bending Italians have been shocked. Many watched with a mixture of glee and dismay as nearly 2,500 of the country...
...Sicily, in 1982, were being scrutinized anew. So was the embezzlement, allegedly by Christian Democrats, of $40 billion in aid intended to rebuild several southern cities after the 1980 earthquake, and the disappearance of huge sums of Third World development aid said to have been plundered by officials in Rome...
...French election may well have signaled the final act in the history of West European socialism, whose roots, like the very notion of left and right politics, go back to the French Revolution. From Stockholm to Rome, from Lisbon to Bonn, socialist and social-democratic movements are in trouble. The Italian party is entangled in financial scandals that prompted Bettino Craxi's resignation as chairman and may put dozens of members behind bars. In Spain, Felipe Gonzalez's party could well face defeat in elections later this year. Britain's Labour Party has been unable to win a national election...