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...privately warning last week that two Pakistanis arrested in a Manila apartment earlier this month may be part of a sophisticated Islamic terror cell targeting Pope John Paul II during his Philippine visit, as well as U.S. airlines. The evidence? U.S. intelligence sources say that not only were bombmaking materials found in the apartment, so too were order forms for clerical robes and schedules for various U.S. airlines. "This is causing very serious concern here," said a State Department aide in Washington...
Philippine police today arrested two men in what the government called a Muslim extremist plot against Pope John Paul II, who was visiting Manila as part of a four-nation tour of Asia. Manila press reports said police are searching for about 20 foreigners in the alleged conspiracy, which reportedly targeted U.S. airlines. Two Pakistani men allegedly involved in the plot were arrested last Friday near the residence of the Vatican ambassador. Police sources told Manila reporters that the men had bomb-making materials in their hotel rooms. Police reportedly are now seeking a 26-year-old Kuwaiti-born "electronics...
Pope John Paul II, visibly tired after a 14-hour flight and using a cane on the tarmac, arrived in Manila as a surging sea of a million Filipinos welcomed him to the only predominantly Roman Catholic country on his grueling, four-nation tour of Southeast Asia. The visit entailed some personal risk, as Filipino authorities had warned of a possible terrorist attack on airlines during the pontiff's visit. (Last week, they arrested a man after finding bomb-making materials in a nearby apartment.) Today, police arrested a man found carrying a pistol along the papal route, deployed bomb...
John Paul has never stepped back from difficulties, and he looks forward to an arduous 1995 agenda. First up is a scheduled 10-day trip in January to Papua New Guinea, Australia, Sri Lanka and the Philippines, where the Archbishop of Manila is in open conflict with the country's Protestant President over population control. The Pope is also laying strategy for the 1995 U.N. World Conference on Women in Beijing, which figures to be a replay of Cairo. In June, he plans to meet with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church. John Paul...
...members of the University Community are urged to exercise special caution in handling incoming mail, especially padded manila envelopes, packages that appear to contain videotapes, plastic boxes, copper tubing or batteries, or parcels that bear unfamiliar return addresses," the message said...