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...that year in St. Peter's Square, was working for Bulgarian agents and, by implication, the Soviet Union. The ten-month trial of Agca's alleged accomplices--and of Agca himself for illegal possession of the pistol that he used to shoot the Pope--ended when Prosecutor Antonio Marini handed the case to the jury without a closing summary. "There were no new arguments for me to rebut," he explained later...
Italian police traced the poisoned Barbera to Giovanni Ciravegna, 57, and his son Daniele, 27, who run a wine-distribution outlet in Piedmont. They were arrested on multiple charges of manslaughter. Police suspect that the two men bought the adulterated wine from Antonio Fusco, a vintner from the southern region of Taranto. But Fusco insists that he is innocent, claiming "an act of sabotage has been carried...
...same time, Antonio Zumel, apparent chairman of the National Democratic Front, an umbrella group for various guerrilla factions, declared last week that Communist leaders were ready to open talks with the Aquino government "without preconditions," though he expressed skepticism about a cease-fire. "Comrades are asking if there have been any feelers from her," he said. "We want to know what's on her mind...
...they knew was that they would die," said San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros. To honor the doomed men who made a stand at the Alamo 150 years ago, some 500 San Antonians and visitors gathered at a commemoration of the historic event last week. All the nearly 200 defenders, including Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, died at the hands of 4,000 Mexican troops. Little more than a month later, General Sam Houston defeated the Mexicans, and Texas had won its independence. The revelers heralded the Alamo's last stand with a deafening musket salute. But the sesquicentennial celebration...
...began with a bang and seems likely to end with a whimper. The bang: the gunshots fired at Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, by Turkish Terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca. The whimper: Italian Prosecutor Antonio Marini's recommendation last week that three Bulgarian defendants charged with complicity in the attack be acquitted on the technical ground of "insufficient evidence." If the court heeds Marini's advice when it hands down its verdict this month, the result will be a stunning blow to the * "Bulgarian Connection" theory, which maintained that Bulgarian intelligence services organized the papal attack...