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According to published reports of his confession to Italian Judge Ilario Martella last year, Agca contended that during a seven-week stay in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia in 1980, he was offered $1.5 million to kill the Pope. The man Agca said made the proposition is Bekir Çelenk, a shadowy Turkish businessman whose dealings often brought him to Bulgaria. Çelenk last week again denied that he had ever met Agca, but he admitted that the two had stayed at the same Sofia hotel at the same time in July...
...lawyers have demanded that their client be freed on the basis of testimony by ten Italian and Bulgarian witnesses who swear he was not in Agca's company on the day of the shooting or the two days prior to it, as Agca has claimed. This week Ilario Martella, the Italian magistrate investigating the papal plot, must come to a decision on Antonov's alibis. It may hinge on other evidence he is gathering. West Germany informed Martella last week that it had agreed to his request for the extradition of Musa Serdar Çelebi, a right-wing...
Agca is now in prison, serving a life sentence for his role in the shooting. In his continuing investigation of the case, Italian Magistrate Ilario Martella had previously requested the arrest of two other Turks. One of the two has been extradited to Italy from Switzerland, and the other is being held in West Germany. Martella's office had tittle to say about the arrest of Antonov last week, acknowledging merely that it was possible that Agca "had acted in criminal agreement with other persons... through various meetings in Italy and elsewhere...
...Lennon also banged out a fourth-inning triple before homering (calling the shot before hand) in the sixth HARVARD (28) ab r h bi Schaper if 2 3 1 0 Schindler ph-if 2 1 1 2 Weller cf 7 3 3 5 Bauer as 6 2 3 6 Martella rf 5 2 2 2 Rivera ph-if 1 1 0 0 Farrell 1b 7 3 6 2 Chicarello dh 6 2 4 3 Lyman 2b 5 3 2 0 Vierra 3b 5 2 1 2 Lennon c 3 2 2 1 Mespone c 3 1 2 2 Totals...
Fifth-ranked Rob Loud bowed to Lion Art Martella...