Word: marini
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...began with a bang and seems likely to end with a whimper. The bang: the gunshots fired at Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, by Turkish Terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca. The whimper: Italian Prosecutor Antonio Marini's recommendation last week that three Bulgarian defendants charged with complicity in the attack be acquitted on the technical ground of "insufficient evidence." If the court heeds Marini's advice when it hands down its verdict this month, the result will be a stunning blow to the * "Bulgarian Connection" theory, which maintained that Bulgarian intelligence services organized the papal attack...
...Agca's verbal pyrotechnics were jarring, other courtroom developments hinted of more drama to come. Prosecutor Antonio Marini persuaded the court to seek the questioning of four suspected Turkish terrorists, all under detention elsewhere in Western Europe, in connection with the alleged assassination conspiracy. Defense lawyers, meanwhile, tried to secure diplomatic immunity for two of the three accused Bulgarians. Most important, testimony by a Turkish defendant brought the first public confirmation of Agca's claim that he was only a cog in a wider conspiracy...
...where a national committee has been formed to issue statements in defense of Sergei Antonov, the former representative in Rome of Bulgaria's Balkan Airlines and the only Bulgarian defendant present in the courtroom, the press leaped on Agca's outbursts as evidence that his story was worthless. Prosecutor Marini disagreed. "When (Agca) begins to talk about facts," he said, "he is extremely reliable." Still, Marini was relieved when Bagci calmly, albeit reluctantly, held up under intense questioning...
Bagci's testimony also brought out the names of four Turks previously unmentioned in connection with the case: Mahmut Inan, Eyup Erdem, Oezdemir Vandettim and Uenal Erdal. The men, Bagci said, had helped him pass on to Agca the pistol that was used to shoot the Pope. Marini expressed hope that the court's move to subpoena three more Turks, held elsewhere in Western Europe, would produce fresh testimony. One of the three, Mehmet Sener, was convicted last week in Switzerland on heroin-smuggling charges. The court is also seeking to question a Turk identified as Aslam Samet...
...same frustrations seemed to motivate the questions fired at Falwell, both from the audience and the forum's two respondents, Wellesley College professor Steven Marini and Divinity School assistant professor Sharon Welch. Trying to expose the well-heeled evangelist as a pseudo-patriotic fraud and hypocritical apologist for genocide, questioners demanded that Falwell answer for just about very injustice in U.S. history, Welch charged Southern evangelists--and by implication their present-day followers like Falwell--with responsibility for slavery, and insisted that Falwell come up with a plan to prevent nuclear war, as if he personally had initiated the arms...