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...though Britain ended capital punishment in 1965, the issue has never been settled in the public mind. I.R.A. killings in Northern Ireland and Britain, along with rising criminality, have helped lead 77% of Britons, according to the latest Gallup poll, to favor the return of the death penalty for terrorist murderers. Last week the nation reached the climax of an emotional argument over the subject that divided the government, mobilized the clergy, aroused the police and dominated the press. After 6½ hours of debate, the House of Commons voted decisively (368 to 223) against a motion to restore capital...
...seat majority in Parliament, to heed the sentiment for a crackdown on violent crime. The vote was "free," meaning that party discipline was not invoked to influence the decisions of individual members. While Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and eight Cabinet colleagues supported a motion calling for the hanging of terrorist killers, eight others voted against...
...attempt on Pope John Paul II's life in 1981, declared Italian authorities last winter, had the backing of the Bulgarian secret service, presumably acting on orders from the Soviet Union. But the accusation depended on the secret confession of the gunman convicted of the shooting, Turkish Terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca, and as the unhurried investigation into his claims continued without producing further important revelations, interest in the case slowly dwindled. Now the intrigue has leaped suddenly back to life. As he was taken from a Rome police station last week, Agca surprised waiting reporters by publicly implicating...
...chaotic encounter outside the police station, the slim, unshaven Turk for the first time confirmed previously published accounts of his confession to Italian investigators. Speaking in broken English and flawed Italian, he claimed that he was trained as a terrorist "in Bulgaria and in Syria." Italian officials believe that Agca was aided in the assassination attempt by three Bulgarians: two former employees at the Rome embassy and Sergei Ivanov Antonov, onetime Rome manager of the Bulgarian airline, who is now being held in a Rome jail pending the outcome of the investigation. Was Antonov involved? newsmen asked, as Agca climbed...
...Osservatore Romano, the Vatican promptly rejected a role as intermediary, saying that the kidnapers were demanding "absurd compensations." Even Agca wanted no part of the deal: he is well aware that only his Italian jailers stand between him and possible Soviet retribution for his confessions. Said the onetime terrorist: "I appeal to the kidnapers: free this poor girl. I have nothing to do with criminals. I am with Italy, with the Italian people, with the Vatican...