Word: aly
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...most wanted terrorists in the world. Italian authorities say he was an accomplice of Mehmet Ali Agca on that fateful day in May 1981 when Agca tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II. He may in fact have fired at least one pistol shot at the Pontiff before fleeing from St. Peter's Square. But for the past four years, the shadowy Oral Celik, 25, has remained on the loose, his whereabouts a mystery. Says one Italian official involved in the investigation of the papal shooting: "We know nothing...
...would be appropriate to say that Martina has played the competition off its feet, except that she is the only powerful woman tennis player who really leaves her feet, a smasher with an underrated delicateness. The Czech defector does not insist that she is the greatest, as Muhammad Ali would say, of all time, though she believes so. "America gave me the opportunity to play the best tennis any woman ever played, which I think I have done the past few years. Excuse me if that sounds like bragging...
...country's 35 million eligible voters went to the polls, compared with 59% in 1970 and about 57% in 1977. But in selecting the 209 members of the new National Assembly, the voters dealt a rebuff to Zia by defeating six members of his Cabinet, including Defense Minister Ali Ahmad Talpur...
...most important questions facing the country now is whether Zia, 60, is really prepared to share power with the newly elected legislators. He dissolved the National Assembly when he seized power from the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1977, and has since ruled by martial law. Zia insists that the elections will lead to a restoration of civilian rule, possibly "within a few months." Toward this end he had gone to enormous effort to ensure a good turnout. His government declared it a crime for anyone to call for an election boycott, and the President said that "to cast...
Conspicuously absent from the election campaign was the one person who retains much of the charisma of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the fiery and popular Prime Minister who was overthrown by Zia in 1977 and later executed (on the charge of being implicated in the murder of the father of a political opponent). That figure is Benazir Bhutto, 31, daughter of the late Prime Minister and today the acting head of her father's Pakistan People's Party. She has been in self-imposed exile in London for the past year. Pakistani police have gone to extraordinary effort...