Word: romes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subway entrance in central Rome, a Senegalese street vendor displays his wares. He lives with 20 other foreigners in a three-story house with no hot water. He thinks the Italians are racist because "when we get on a bus, they move away from...
Racial incidents are now commonplace. In May, Somalians demonstrated in Rome's Piazza Venezia to protest overcrowding and poor housing. A shelter for immigrants near the Colosseum was burned last January, and in December two gypsies were shot and killed at their campsite in Bologna. Under tougher immigration laws that went into effect last year, Italy expelled more than 6,000 illegal immigrants and turned back 13,435 from its borders in the first four months of this year...
London: William Mader, Anne Constable Paris: Frederick Ungeheuer, Margot Hornblower, Edward M. Gomez Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson, Daniel Benjamin Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney, Ann M. Simmons Rome: Robert T. Zintl Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: Jay Branegan, David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Latin America: John Moody Mexico City: Laura Lopez...
Italians are notorious for not paying their taxes, but with the government staggering under annual deficits of more than $100 billion, Rome can no longer afford to wink at deadbeats. To embarrass delinquents, Finance Minister Rino Formica launched Operation Glass House, giving computerized lists of the past decade's 270,000 tax evaders to the press. The lists include such figures as leather-goods entrepreneur Roberto Gucci and Benito Mussolini's son Romano...
...nation's No. 1 tax cheat is Domenico Cannarozzo, 42, who told Rome that his income between 1983 and 1985, when he was unemployed, was only about $9,000. In fact, Cannarozzo failed to report roughly $21 million during those years. His overdue tax bill: more than $13 million. So far, the government has had difficulty locating Cannarozzo. But that should be no surprise to Italian tax authorities: for every delinquent tax bill they manage to identify, they succeed in recovering just 24% of the money...