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...escaped. The arrest of Maurtua led police to three ETA hideouts in an isolated mountainous area where the terrorists had hidden 131 kg of explosives along with detonators and fuses. ITALY Mugabe's Loophole Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe took advantage of a loophole in international law to travel to Rome despite an E.U. travel ban imposed in February because of the violence and fraud surrounding his re-election. But the Italian government had to allow him access to the Food and Agriculture Organization's World Food Summit because it was a U.N. event. Mugabe used the summit to praise...
...never returned. It becomes part of the infrastructure of surveillance and control." Also worried is Marco Cappato, an Italian Member of the European Parliament. An original sponsor of the E.U.'s data-protection legislation, he turned against it, he said, when late amendments under- mined its language. His compatriot, Rome law professor Stefano Rodot?, who helped draft the E.U.'s Charter of Fundamental Rights, views the new European law as the "last frontier" of compromise between data protection and national security. Phone and Internet companies are also unsettled. "As a global company, we would prefer a harmonized approach," says Richard...
...first place to look would be among Rome's heavyweight Cardinals--conservative stalwarts like Germany's Joseph Ratzinger and savvy bureaucrats like Congregation of Bishops chief Giovanni Battista Re, who now have a chance to advance their own agendas without papal scrutiny. But many insiders say the real power behind the papal throne lies with a humble Polish clergyman they call Don Stanislaw...
...more somber note, he added, “As Aeneas to Rome, as Moses to the Promised Land, as John Harvard to the blessed banks of the Charles, so you are called to the path of truth...
...allusions suggested that the search for truth is difficult—Moses died before entering the Promised Land, Aeneas was not able to found Rome and Harvard died of tuberculosis less than a year after landing in Charlestown...