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Word: effortil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting with John Paul I, on Sept. 28, in which the Pontiff outlines his proposed personnel changes. Villot, according to Yallop, "advised, argued and remonstrated, but to no avail." Yallop speculates that the Pope was poisoned, perhaps by someone tampering with a bottle of low-blood-pressure medicine called Effortil that the author says John Paul I kept at his bedside. Yallop insists that inconsistencies in the Vatican's account of the papal death and the absence of an autopsy point to a coverup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vatican: Poison Gossip | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

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