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SENTENCED. Juan María Fernández y Krohn, 33, Spanish priest of an archtraditionahst Roman Catholic faction who last May attempted to kill Pope John Paul II with a bayonet at Portugal's Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima; to seven years and one month in prison; in Vila Nova de Ourém, Portugal. The term includes seven months for contempt of court for disrupting his trial. At his sentencing he shouted, "Puppets! Assassins! Communists!" at his judges...
...Portuguese doubtless were relieved that the attack on the Pope at Fátima came not from one of their own but from a visiting Spaniard, Juan Fernández y Krohn, 32. Police investigators soon confirmed that Fernández was, as he had appeared to be, a priest-but an archconservative one. He was ordained at the seminary of Ecône in Switzerland, the traditionalist bastion of French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, a diehard opponent of the liberalizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), especially its modernization of the 16th century Latin Mass. Even Lefebvre, however...
...Krohn, who is 37 and white, would demand under the 14th amendment to the Constitution that the Law School prove his rejection was not a result of reverse discrimination...
...Krohn could not be reached for comment yesterday...
Judge Levin H. Campbell '48, one of the three presiding judges, said in court that Krohn's argument that Harvard should still be considered a division of the state seemed "a bit bizarre...