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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...
...insisted Sergei Antonov, in his native Bulgarian. That disclaimer by the trembling, white- faced defendant came in response to pointed questioning by Judge Severino Santiapichi last week at the four-month-old trial in Rome of Antonov and six other defendants; they are accused of conspiring with Turkish Gunman Mehmet Ali Agca to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square four years ago. The question of Antonov's linguistic skills is considered vital to the , prosecution's case because Agca has said that he communicated with his alleged coconspirators in English...
...trial of the eight defendants accused of conspiring to kill Pope John Paul II resumed last week in Rome, the overriding question was whether Star Witness Mehmet Ali Agca would ever testify again. The previous Tuesday, after persistent grilling by presiding Judge Severino Santiapichi, Agca had wearily announced, "There is nothing left to say." Then he returned to his cell in Rebibbia prison, refusing to appear in court. Over the weekend, however, the convicted Turkish gunman had a change of heart. Early last week he not only showed up in court but arrived with the announcement that "I have searched...
...weeks, Mehmet Ali Agca had threatened to turn Italy's "trial of the century" into a three-ring circus. He repeatedly insisted that he was Jesus Christ. He refused to elaborate on his claim that there was an international plot to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981, declaring that further testimony would endanger his life. But last week Agca was suddenly all business. "I have decided to continue," the 27-year-old Turk briskly informed the Rome court where he and seven other defendants are standing trial, four of them in absentia, on charges related to the alleged conspiracy...
During 2 1/2 days of often contradictory testimony in a Rome courtroom, Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, gave the first courtroom explanations last week of where he learned his deadly skills. Agca declared that in 1977 he had been trained by "Bulgarian and Czech experts" in a camp in Latakia, Syria. He said that he and other Turkish terrorists, together with trainees from France, Italy, Spain and West Germany, were instructed in the use of guns and bombs. Then he added: "I affirm with certainty that...