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Recently Gaddafi has had to contend with increasing opposition to his regime among Libyans studying and working abroad, including several of his former cabinet ministers. In response to such dissent, according to officials of several governments, Libyan "death squads" have murdered Gaddafi foes in Rome, Athens and London. Gaddafi's agents have been accused of masterminding the attempted assassination last October of Faisal Zagallai, 35, a Libyan student living in Colorado. Eugene Tafoya, a former U.S. Green Beret, has been charged with the shooting, which he denies. At home Gaddafi has little trouble stifling potential opposition, mostly by retaining...
...fallen Cardinal as a "great patriot." While thousands of mourners filed past Wyszynski's flower-covered casket in Warsaw's St. Joseph's Church, Pope John Paul II, the Cardinal's countryman and longtime protege, sent a telegram to the Polish people from his Rome hospital bed, saying that he shared in their "pain and prayer...
...adds that the position of ambassador to Russia is "certainly not a social post," saying, "nobody goes there for the fun of it--it's not like London, Paris or Rome. The ambassador makes his recommendations on what U.S. policy ought...
Zariski, a specialist in algebraic geometry, was born in Russia, received his doctorate at the University of Rome, and came to the United States in 1927, "I feel a little bit uneasy talking about my achievements," he said, "but I never took mediocre students. On the whole, I had about 15 students who are now full professors of mathematics...
Could Agca have managed all this without help? He had handled the pistol like a trained marksman. A Rome police spokesman said his forged passport was "absolutely perfect. He could not have produced it alone." (Turkish police say they have arrested two men and a woman in connection with the passport forgery.) Was it possible that Agca could have financed his 16-month stay in Europe, as he claimed, through "the gifts of friends"? Authorities were by no means sure but at week's end they still believed he had probably been acting alone...