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...President also reiterated a pledge, made by Secretary of State Alexander Haig at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Rome last month, that negotiations would start before the end of the year. Though Schmidt prefers that the talks begin in early autumn, he did not expect Reagan to move up the timetable and thus had to be satisfied with the President's assurances...
...mashed pear, and the next day he tackled a bowl of stracciatella, a hot chicken broth with egg drops. There were clear signs last week that Pope John Paul II was on his way to recovery-and, as usual with any job he tackled, doing it robustly. Doctors at Rome's Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic removed the 26 stitches they had inserted after a would-be assassin's bullet ripped through the Pope's abdomen on May 13. The Pontiff received visitors, made brief voyages to a nearby armchair and walked in the corridor outside the tenth-floor...
Agca made that point again when he was moved from central police headquarters in Rome to the city's Rebibbia prison after eight days of interrogation. Unshaven and blinking in the sunlight, his gray worsted, double-breasted suit hanging loosely on his lean frame, Agca declared remorse-for incidentally wounding the two female American tourists. Said he: "I am well. I am sorry not for the Pope but for the foreign tourists...
...President Reagan was attacked, most egregiously the reports that Press Secretary James Brady had died. Says ABC World News Tonight Executive Producer Jeff Gralnick: "All of us learned a lesson with James Brady." The networks also had the problem of reporting live on a story that was unfolding in Rome while most of their foreign crews were concentrated in Northern Ireland and the Middle East. Early medical bulletins on the Pontiff swung wildly between Vatican reports that he was "serene and conscious" and hospital characterizations of his condition as "grave." Says NBC News Senior Executive Producer Les Crystal: "There...
Despite the extraordinary care taken to ensure accuracy, mistakes were made, though none of the Brady magnitude. Ted Turner's scrappy Atlanta-based Cable News Network beat its broad-shouldered network competition with the first satellite video feed from Rome, but made several errors. More than once, CNN spoke of the Pope in the past tense, and later stated - along with CBS - that the operation had taken only 30 min. ABC Correspondent Bill Blakemore reported at 12:36 (E.D.T.) that the alleged assassin was an Arab. A CBS medical expert, using a text book illustration to explain the Pope...