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...Reagan Administration was trying to patch up its bruised image in Western Europe. During the past year, the transatlantic dialogue has deteriorated into a shouting match over high U.S. interest rates, East-West trade and European subsidies for farm products. Thus, in his visits to Bonn, Brussels, The Hague, Rome, Paris, Madrid and London, Shultz made a special effort to ease West European fears that the Reagan Administration had little interest in fostering international economic and monetary cooperation...
...diplomatic receptions from London to Moscow the talk quickly turns to the Bulgarian Connection. Everyone in Europe, it seems, has become fascinated by an allegation that, if true, could profoundly undermine East-West relations: that a Turkish gunman's attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul II in Rome 19 months ago was masterminded by the Soviet Union, which was angered by the Pontiffs support of Poland's Solidarity Union. The trail, it is rumored, could lead as high as Soviet Leader and former KGB Chief Yuri Andropov. The reactions in West European capitals range from total disbelief...
...prisoner named Mehmet Ali Agca, there have been vague reports that one or another Soviet-bloc intelligence agency might have been involved in the crime. With an arrest sure to fuel such rumors, Italian police last week seized a Bulgarian citizen named Sergei Ivanov Antonov, 34, head of the Rome office for Balkan Airlines. The charge: that Antonov was an active accomplice of Agca...
Exactly what role Antonov may have played in the conspiracy is not clear. Nor is much known about Antonov himself, beyond the fact that he had worked in Rome for four or five years, and left his family at home in Sofia. His job would have given him easy access to passenger planes at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport, freeing him from some of the limitations of immigration and customs controls. According to some reports, he is suspected of having provided Agca with information, money and a hotel room at the time of the shooting, and may even...
...Bulgarian embassy in Rome protested indignantly against the "unfounded" arrest of Antonov...