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...With deep emotion, I thank you for prayers and I bless you all," the pope said in a message which was recorded at Rome's Gemelli Policlinico Hospital and played over a loudspeaker a short time later for the crowd in St. Peter's Square...
...charged with shooting the pope. Mehmet Ali Agca, 23, remained under heavy guard in Rome police headquarters...
...women were recovering yesterday in Rome's Santo Spirito Hospital...
Reagan called the NATO council "a most successful meeting in a situation that could have been critical for us in regard to our allies." If indeed the European endorsement holds, it was a genuine achievement; it took hard bargaining by Haig in both Washington and Rome. Haig wanted NATO to offer the Soviets both a carrot and a stick-an American pledge to reopen arms control talks, accompanied by a unified Alliance get-tough policy made credible by defense spending. The day before he left Washington, Haig won Reagan's agreement, despite resistance from some hardliners. Soon after...
White House officials were taking considerable satisfaction from last week's smooth progress in Rome. "If we could just do it like this all the time," sighed one top presidential aide. Gone for the moment, although not entirely forgotten, were Haig's early tactical errors: trying to get Reagan to give him total control of foreign policy; threatening, all but publicly, to resign over the selection of Vice President George Bush as chief of crisis management; announcing, in a trembling, unsteady voice on the day President Reagan was shot, that he was "in control" at the White House...