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...terrorist assassin's goal is always drama and publicity; his chief professional concern is (to put it grotesquely) one of casting. So there was something tragically spectacular in Mehmet Ali Agca's choice of victim. A strike of such reptilian malice against one of the globe's few authentic moral and spiritual leaders was a fiercely pure example of terrorist logic: the act should produce a profound moral dislocation, shattering not only state law but also human sensibility. The terrorist seizes what people value most and crucifies it upside down; he aims to induce a paralysis...
...have killed the Pope." So proclaimed a triumphant message that Rome police found in a cheap hotel room rented by Mehmet Ali Agca. The statement was overconfident, but little else could be said with such certainty about the shadowy figure charged with shooting John Paul II. Despite intense interrogation, Italian police at week's end were a long way from answers to the key questions about the accused gunman. Was Agca a solitary fanatic or did he have organizational assistance? The police announced that Agca had insisted that he acted "alone, all alone," but the indictment against him spoke...
...charged with shooting the pope. Mehmet Ali Agca, 23, remained under heavy guard in Rome police headquarters...
Last week Ecevit met with TIME'S John Shaw and Mehmet Ali Kislali in his spacious office in Ankara. Over tea and with a relief map of Cyprus on the wall near him, Ecevit gave his views of the situation...
Correspondent Charles Eisendrath journeyed to the opium-rich Afyon province of Turkey to talk with poppy farmers (see cut). Eisendrath also interviewed "Mehmet," a former Turkish smuggler who had turned informer for the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. "The sweat bubbled in the creases of his forehead whenever Mehmet told specific details about his job," Eisendrath recalls. Shortly afterward Mehmet disappeared mysteriously from the BNDD network-presumably a casualty. Says Eisendrath: "In a way the sickness-and attempted cure-of the U.S. drug problem had confused Mehmet, and quite possibly destroyed...