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Correspondent Barry Kalb happened to be reading about terrorism in Italy when word reached him at the TIME Rome bureau that Pope John Paul II had been shot in St. Peter's Square. He pieced together the grim sequence of events and then rushed to Gemelli Hospital to pursue reports on the Pope's condition. Says Kalb: "When I had a minute to breathe later that evening, I realized that I had been more saddened than surprised by the fact that someone would shoot the Pope. And that saddened me more than anything else." Rome Bureau Chief Wilton...
...With deep emotion, I thank you for prayers and I bless you all," the pope said in a message which was recorded at Rome's Gemelli Policlinico Hospital and played over a loudspeaker a short time later for the crowd in St. Peter's Square...
...that "I was afraid to accept this nomination," and on at least three occasions in the first 24 hours he wept openly: in the conclave, upon his election; during his first appearance on the balcony; and the following evening when he drove in an open sedan to Rome's Gemelli Clinic to visit a friend, Bishop Andre-Marie Deskur, who was recovering from a heart attack. He made some remarks to the crowd at the hospital, but when he was finished he forgot to impart the apostolic blessing; an escorting prelate had to remind him to do it. At that...
...addition to Mancuso, police arrested Domenico Barbino, 26, a dapper, handsome hospital orderly at Rome's Policlinico Gemelli, who had moved to the capital from Calabria ten years ago. Police suspect that Barbino dealt in drugs, a sideline that brought him into contact with young Getty and his circle of hippie friends who clustered around Rome's swinging Piazza Navona...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Agostino Gemelli, 81, Roman Catholic theologian who served (1936-59) as president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, wrote prolifically on matters of health and morals, flayed Freud and denied the possibility of extraterrestrial life, was a confidant to Pope Pius XI ; in Milan, Italy...