Word: aly
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...last Winds of War episode. I drove to Montecito, a suburb south of Santa Barbara, to talk with Robert Mitchum, a gifted storyteller who answers almost every question with an anecdote. I interviewed about 20 people connected with the program: Jan-Michael Vincent at his favorite Malibu hangout, Ali MacGraw at a Los Angeles hotel, John Houseman at a shooting of The Paper Chase. At the end of it all, I felt I'd been involved in a mini-epic...
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...
...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...
With an uphill reelection fight looming against Ali, Reagan challenges the Senator to a winner-take-all boxing match in 1984, declaring. "I can beat him at his own game." Saying that he will outlast Ali, the President predicts a 15-round decision in his favor. "He talks and brags with no remorse/But only I can stay the course." Reagan explains...
...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...