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...life imprisonment, and then zeroed in on those who seemed likely to turn informant in exchange for a lighter sentence. The tactic worked, and the confessions snowballed. The mood of the country also changed, for the Moro and Dozier incidents, combined with the spree of violence, cost the terrorists what little sympathy they enjoyed among Italians. Perhaps as a result, terrorist attacks in Italy have decreased' from a high of 2,395 in 1978 to 849 in 1981 and 603 in 1982. Authorities expect that the rate will drop further as more convictions...
Investigating the 1981 assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II is like putting together a maddeningly complex jigsaw puzzle. The picture remains far from complete, and there is no proof of the growing suspicion that the Soviet Union, acting through Bulgaria, was behind Turkish Terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca's effort to kill the Pope, or even aware of the attempt. But the latest fragments make the inquiry more tantalizing than ever...
...Algeria policy; of a brain hemorrhage; in Camboles-Bains, France. After serving as Premier and Foreign Minister in several postwar Cabinets, he resigned from the government in 1958, finally fled the country in 1962 after his parliamentary immunity from arrest was lifted because of his support for the terrorist Secret Army Organization. He returned six years later under a De Gaulle amnesty...
...strongly worded reactions were a sign of how seriously the Soviets take the accusations, which have grown out of a continuing Italian investigation into the attempt by Turkish Terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca to assassinate the Pope. Agca, who was sentenced to life imprisonment last July, has told Italian investigators that his accomplices included three Bulgarian agents, two of whom, he said, drove him to St. Peter's Square the day of the shooting...
...true act of war in a time of peace," In those extraordinary terms, Italy's Defense Minister Lelio Lagorio last week described new revelations concerning the attempt by a Turkish terrorist to assassinate Pope John Paul II 19 months ago. Lagorio was one of four ministers who, in the space of ten hours, appeared in Rome's ornate, 17th century Parliament to accuse Bulgaria, and by implication the Soviet Union, of standing behind Gunman Mehmet Ali Agca's failed effort...