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ITALY: NIGERIAN PRESIDENT OBASANJO VISIT
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The president of Nigeria, General Olusegun Obasanjo, met Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi as part of a two day trip to Rome on Monday.
The Nigerian president was given a ceremonial greeting at the Presidential palace...
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President arrives from Poland
1. US President George Bush and First Lady Laura Bush appear in doorway of Air Force One, wave, walk down stairs, and greet people at bottom of stairs
US President George Bush and First Lady Laura Bush arrived in Rome late on Friday. ...
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SYND 30 5 80 EGYPTIAN MINISTER GHALI MEETS ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER COLUMBO
Egyptian foreign minister Boutros Ghali arriving in a car at the Quirannale Palace in Rome. Italian foreign minister Emilio Colombo walking to palace. Both ministers on palace balcony overlooking Rome. Interios of the Palace with...
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Special trains and other services for millions of pilgrims
1. Women sitting on luggage
2. Queue of people along street with luggage
3. Emergency workers standing by to help arriving pilgrims
4. Official speaking to child
5. Scout group arriving
6. Train pulling up at station
7. People walking...
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LIB 18-4-74 POPE GIVES EASTER BLESSING
Pope Paul VI give his traditional easter blessing in Rome.
1. ws of the crowds gatehred in St Peter's Square
2. vs of the military guard and the crowd
3. ws of the Pope appearing on a balcony
4. ws crowd
5. ws Pope giving blessing
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SYND 13 7 67 BALESTRA FASHIONS ON DISPLAY IN ROME
Enato Balestra of Rome shows Autumn - Winter fashions for 1967 - 68 season
1. model wears 2 piece cocktail suit
2. model unbuttons jacket to reveal sleeveless upper of dress
3. model wears striped dress and coat and tall hat
4. cu hat
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UPITN 2 6 73 ITALIAN PRESIDENT LEONE LAYS WREATH AT IL VITTORIANO AND ATTENDS MILITARY PARADE IN ROME
Italian President Giovanni Leone lays wreath at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and attends a military parade in Rome.
1. various of Guard of Honour lined up as President Leone and dignitaries arrive
2. various of Leone inspecting Guard of...
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SYND 20 2 68 BULGARIAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISIT
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ivan Hristov Bashev on a visit to Rome where he is met by Italian Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani.
1. Palazzo della Farnesina
2. ms Bashev and party into conference room
3. ms Bashev and party take seat at...
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Anti-austerity marchers throw eggs and firecrackers at Finance Ministry
Anti-austerity protesters in the Italian capital Rome, threw eggs and firecrackers at the Finance Ministry building during a march on Saturday to oppose cuts to welfare programmes and a shortage in low-income housing.
Police said 11...
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US Sec of State Powell arrives in Rome
1. Wide shot of Air Force Two plane on tarmac
2. Cutaway of security officer with sniffer dog
3. Steps positioned onto plane exit door
4. US Secretary of State Colin Powell walks down steps
5. Italian police helicopter flying overhead
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CAN 109 ITALIANS MARK FOUR HUNDRED YEARS OF MICHELANGELO'S DEATH WITH EXHIBITION IN ROME
Italians marking four hundred years of the death of Michelangelo Buonarroti by producing limited edition of 10,000 Lire notes with Michelangelo's face on and organising exhibition of his work in Rome.
1. cu portrait of Michelangelo on...
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SYND 20 12 68 POLICE AND STUDENTS CLASH IN ROME
Rome police and students have been invovled in the worst street clash since the summer violence.
1. ws police and students march along street
2. ms students wave fists in solidarity gesture
3. vs police and students march,...
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SYND 4 4 71 POPE'S PALM SUNDAY SPEECH IN ROME, ITALY
Pope Paul VI speaks on Palm Sunday in Vatican.
1. gv palace in Vatican
2. ms Pope down aisle with Cardinals
3. cu palm leaves
4. ms Pope sprinkles holy water on palms
5. various of Pope handing out palms to churchmen
6. ms Pope...
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SYND 16/01/71 REFERENDUM AGAINST DIVORCE LAW CHANGE
Italian Roman Catholics presenting petitions to Rome courthouse asking for national referendum against new divorce law
1 gv people putting their names to petitions
2 ms posters advocating the referendum
3 ms petition officials
4 ms...
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Widow attends service for Italian intelligence officer
1. Exterior of the Vittoriano monument in Rome
2. Wreath
3. Hearse arriving at the Vittoriano, people applauding
4. Various of car approaching
5. Wide shot of hearse
6. Calipari''s wife embraced by under-secretary of government, Gianni...
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Tight security in Rome ahead of Obama's trip to visit Pope Benedict XVI
1. Wide of police road block in Via del Plebiscito, on the corner of Venice Square
2. Police vehicles
3. Exterior wide of Palazzo Grazioli
4. Police car and two police officers in front of Palazzo Grazioli entrance
5. Police officers
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SYND 19 4 78 ARMS CACHE OF RED BRIGADE AT HIDEOUT
The Red Brigades a left-wing terrorist group formed in 1970 with the aim of overthrowing capitalist Italy by any means. The Red Brigade later kidnapped Aldo Moro a leading political figure and statesman on the 16th March 1978. The Red...
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Italian foreign minister Fini arrives at Gemelli to see pope
1. Wide hospital
2. Motorcade arrives, Italian Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini gets out of car and walks towards hospital entrance
3. Fini and other officials greeted by doctor and walking inside hospital
Italian Foreign Minister...
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Road blocks set up over fears of terrorist truck attack.
1. Wide of truck passing, with officer in foreground
2. Soldiers pulling aside red truck
3. Driver showing contents of truck
4. Guard pulls over another truck
5. Various of guards stopping cars and vans
6. Truck driving through...
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UNUSED LIB 20/5/80 EFFECTS OF THE MUNICIPAL WORKERS' STRIKE IN ROME
Effects of the municipal workers' strike in Rome, large piles of uncollected rubbish on streets.
1. gv busy street, pan to pile of rubbish on the side
2. various of piles of uncollected rubbish on streets, people walking past, cars...
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SYND 24-01-69 STUDENTS ATTEMPT TO STORM SOVIET EMBASSY IN PRO-CZECH DEMONSTRATIONS
In continuing demonstrations on the streets of Rome, students attempt to storm the Soviet embassy in protest at the invasion of Czechoslovakia.
1. VS of marching students in the street, shouting and with banners
2. VS fo the students...
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President begins consultations over possible early elections
1. Wide of Circo Massimo in Rome
2. Pan right from church to exteriors of Democratic Party headquarters in Rome
3. Leader of democratic Party walking in
3. Italian foreign minister, Massimo D'Alema walking in
4. Journalists
5. Deputy...
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SYND 14 4 73 TELEPHONE WORKERS PROTEST IN ROME OVER PAY CLAIM
Italian phone workers marching out on strike in Rome over pay claim.
1. various of demonstrations, people marching with banners through streets and round the Coliseum
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Clashes as PM survives no confidence vote
1. Mid of students protesting in street UPSOUND: loud bang
2. Close of carabinieri (police) hiding behind shield
3. Protesters walking past police vehicle
4. Pan of eggs in street, zoom out to police vehicles
6. Protester hitting police...