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...Yanks make it to the final contest in Rome on July 8? Highly unlikely. In 1950 an unheralded U.S. squad shook the soccer establishment to its shoelaces by beating mighty England in a Cup game. But in this age of cautious play, when winning the Cup can net international stars $250,000 each in bonus money, the Americans will probably go winless. In the first round they are up against veteran squads from Austria, Czechoslovakia and Italy, a three-time champion. Bookmakers give the U.S only a 1-in-500 chance of bringing home the Cup. But U.S. Coach...
This month a federal grand jury in Atlanta is expected to hand up indictments in connection with almost $3 billion in unauthorized loans funneled to Iraq through the local branch of the Rome-based Banca Nazionale del Lavoro. Although the individual credits themselves were not forbidden, their sum total violated state and federal banking regulations, as well as those of the home bank in Italy. Federal investigators are reportedly trying to ascertain if BNL Atlanta extended a credit to a British-based company accused of trying to procure for Iraq elements of a triggering device for an atom bomb...
...difficulties and locked up 30 of them. After 24 hours of searching unsuccessfully for a translator, the police decided it would be easier to call it off, and escorted the Albanians aboard their flight to Iceland. According to one official, the footballers may also have had language difficulties in Rome, because they were carrying items from that airport's duty-free shop...
...could withstand an invasion of up to 500,000 visitors a day -- five times the city's capacity, according to the opponents' estimates. Even without the Expo, Italian tourism will reach record levels by the turn of the century: 2000 is a Holy Year, when tourists will flock to Rome, while Milan may be serving as host for the Summer Olympics. To spread out the traffic, Expo organizers propose holding their fair from January to April -- just when the canals most frequently overflow their banks. Argues Cesare De Michelis: "The idea of the Expo is to control tourism, not increase...
London: William Mader, Anne Constable Paris: Christopher Redman, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Central Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Rome: Cathy Booth Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton, Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Seoul: David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Central America: John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez