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...terrorist roots back to his native Turkey, where he had rubbed shoulders with extremists of both right and left. In July 1979 Agca pleaded guilty to the murder of moderate Turkish Journalist Abdi Ipekci; he escaped from prison five months later. In July 1980 Agca appeared in Sofia, Bulgaria. According to NBC, he spent seven weeks in the best hotels there, received a counterfeit Turkish passport and mingled with members of the Turkish Mafia, which has long run a thriving drugs-for-guns trade with the cooperation of Bulgaria's hard-line Communist regime. It was in Bulgaria, Kalb...
...touch the unhappiness of the whole world in one single man," he wrote. "And as long as we don't give him up, then nothing is given up." The aphorism is a frag ment of autobiography. Born in 1905 in a Danube port city in Bulgaria, Canetti claims that his Turkish-raised grandfather boasted of knowing 17 languages. After his fa ther died in Manchester, England, Canetti zigzagged between the Zu rich of Dada, Lenin and Joyce, and the Vienna of Freud, finally earning a Ph.D. in chemistry. But the young doctor chose literature instead of laboratories. Auto...
During an airline hijacking, the passengers are usually cowed and careful. But last week, after four young, armed Turks, members of a leftist terrorist group, diverted a Turkish Air Lines DC-9 to Bulgaria and demanded the release of 47 of their comrades in Turkish prisons, the hostages boldly decided to strike back. By the second day, according to the plane's pilot Barlas Akidil, "we had received several signs from the passengers that they were very eager to get rid of the terrorists...
...German officials doubt that Agca visited their country, although Turkish sources claim Agca and another N.A.P. terrorist were seen near Stuttgart. Stamps in his forged passport indicate that Agca spent time in Spain. He is known to have visited Tunisia. Agca claims to have traveled to Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Britain, France, Belgium, West Germany and Denmark. But it was to Austria, which Agca did not mention, that authorities traced the 9-mm Browning pistol used at St. Peter's. The weapon apparently was stolen from a retired gunsmith near Vienna...
Races are still ultimately decided on the snow, however, and last week both Stenmark and Phil Mahre faulted momentarily under the pressure. At Borovets, Bulgaria, a second place in the G.S. would have won the Cup for Phil, but he wobbled in fifth behind Stenmark and the lanky, sandy-haired Zhirov, who won. A day later, a slalom win would have given Stenmark another five points to cushion his lead, but once more Zhirov won, and while a second place would again have wrapped it up for Phil, the wrong Mahre took second. Phil came in third behind his brother...