Articles

Merlin law under attack: Italian prostitutes demand their rights
Rome Daily American, March 2, 1986
A virgin at 18 and a hooker by 19, Luisanna, one of Rome's top-paid prostitutes has been selling love for more than 14 years.
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Help in sight for Rome's monuments
Rome Daily American, January 26, 1986
In two months time Mayor Nicola Signorello will launch an international campaign to save Rome's historic monuments from ruin.
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Canadian artist Garth Speight's Vatican success
Rome Daily American, October 5, 1985
"Art functions with chaos and confusion, that's why I live in Italy," says Garth Speight, one of Canada's brightest and most talented painters.
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Debate fails to rid Rome of Il Vittoriano
Rome Daily American, February 2, 1986
A mock trial, headed by architectural historian and author Bruno Zevi, ruled in favour of saving the 90-year-old Victor Emmanuel monument — also known as the wedding cake, the typewriter, elegant pissoir, il Vittoriano — from destruction.
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American burgers come to Rome
Rome Daily American, January 19, 1986
Big Burg, Hot Burger and Speedy Burger are just a few of the fast-food palaces that have introduced Romans to the world of soft buns, thick milkshakes, slow-drip ketchup and café Americano.
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Bishops gather in Rome for Synod
Rome Daily American, December 1, 1985
The Catholic Church can't afford "to go backwards", but must continue to move forward and develop from the path it took since the Second Vatican Council, say bishops attending the Extraordinary Bishop's Synod.
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Mothers battling heroin
Toronto Star, Nov. 8, 1986
They meet daily in the drug infested streets of Naples' impoverished "quartieri Spagnoli" to battle the ear that's killing the city's youth -- heroin.
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