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...Maastricht decisions will be incorporated into the 1957 Treaty of Rome, the E.C.'s charter document. With its political dimension expanded, the Community -- the industrialized world's largest single market with 340 million people -- should provide much needed stability in the face of turmoil in Eastern Europe and disintegration in the former Soviet Union...
...people of ancient Greece and Rome, the Celtic world B.C. was narrow and barbaric. Actually it reached from the British Isles to Asia Minor and had a highly developed civilization -- as shown by finely wrought objects in bronze, silver and glass...
...often the most startling revelations occur in these works. Ives' Three-Page Sonata or Stockhausen's Klavierstuck IX are rinsed in his effervescent Romanticism, and concertgoers find formidable works exciting. Cherkassky's birthday bash is Dec. 2 at Carnegie Hall; several other dates, including St. Louis, Cleveland, London and Rome will follow...
...Germany intervened in Italy after Mussolini was overthrown on July 25, 1943. (On April 28, 1945, partisan forces would shoot him dead and string up his body by the heels in the Piazza Loreto in Milan.) It would take the Allies nearly a year to fight their way into Rome. By then, the true second front in Europe was about to open; on June 6, 1944, the Allies landed in Normandy...
Unidroit, a Rome-based intergovernmental organization, is drafting codes that would harmonize many countries' cultural-property laws and make the UNESCO treaty more acceptable. Interpol and other enforcement agencies are hoping that computer files -- once the many different police computers can talk to one another -- will help further...