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...Pope had come to Fátima, ironically, to fulfill a vow of gratitude to the Virgin Mary for having saved his life just a year earlier, when Turkish Assassin Mehmet Ali Agca shot him in St. Peter's Square. That attempt occurred on the very day, May 13, and almost at the same hour that three shepherd children tending their flocks in Fátima claimed to have seen the first of six apparitions of the Virgin, in 1917. To John Paul, his escape from death and his remarkable recovery from his wounds were nothing less than...
...shots rang across St. Peter's Square last May, one witness recalled, like "the popping of a string of firecrackers." Pope John Paul II lay grievously wounded, and a right-wing Turkish fanatic, Mehmet Ali Agca, 23, barely escaped being torn to pieces by an angry mob for attempting to kill the Pope. Ever since, Agca has claimed that he acted alone. But right from the start, Italian police and the judges who sentenced him to life imprisonment felt to the contrary, yet were strangely reluctant to pursue their leads. Last week Italian investigators finally declared that they...
...almost seasonal regularity: before time had diminished the shock of one shooting, another occurred. First, on a mild spring afternoon in Washington, John Hinckley fired his pipsqueak's .22 at Ronald Reagan for reasons meaningful only to himself; then, in the sun of St. Peter's Square, Mehmet Ali Agca, forging a new category of hatefulness, gunned down Pope John Paul II; finally, during an autumn celebration of Egypt's military might, four Islamic fanatics ran from out of the orderly pomp toward President Anwar Sadat, grenades and automatic fire flying...
...stronger, more lasting vision. A civil servant from Mōmlingen, West Germany, on a tour of Italy with his wife Erna, Hartmann was in St. Peter's Square taking pictures of the Pontiff from behind, when shots rang out from the Browning 9-mm semiautomatic pistol of Mehmet Ali Agca. Two weeks later, Hartmann and his wife were showing slides of then-vacation to their son Wolfgang, 33, a schoolteacher. Wolfgang immediately spotted what his parents had missed: perhaps the most chilling photographic record of the attempted assassination...
Harvard's sole victory in the tournament came against Principia Saturday night. Munatones scored a hat trick to complement Hall's six tallies, and Fasi and senior John Fisher contributed two goals each. On defense, Mehmet Oz replaced starter Rich Reid in goal in the fourth quarter and, on the strength of five saves, shut out the Principia offense...