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Down in the murkier reaches of the affair, meantime, Italian authorities seemed ready to make a decision about whether to pursue the "Bulgarian connection." Agca has insisted that he had three Bulgarian accomplices in the assassination plot. One of them, said the gunman, was Sergei Ivanov Antonov, once the Rome manager of Bulgaria's national airline. Agca has offered detailed but sometimes conflicting recollections of a labyrinthine plot involving the Bulgarians, right-wing Turks and, ultimately, the Soviet KGB. Agca claims that Antonov drove him to St. Peter's Square on the day of the shooting. Italian investigators...
Events may be merely busy, of course-a sort of itch of the unusual, a restlessness in the world. But when the news is momentous, it may run toward darker, murkier regions, toward war and catastrophe...
...Francisco Choreographer John McFall, 36. Lynne Taylor-Corbett, whose Great Galloping Gottschalk was a hit last year, has a moody new piece, Estuary; once again the performances, by Van Hamel and Patrick Bissell, burnish a dull concept. Van Hamel, a dancer of wit and grace, has an even murkier assignment in Jiri Kylian's Torso, a grim, roughhouse pas de deux with Clark Tippet...
...quiet," snapped one official. "That's why they're covert." Some State Department hands speculated that the leak was designed to highlight the Administration's involvement in a popular cause like Afghanistan, where the Soviet threat is unambiguous, as a way of justifying intervention in the murkier internal affairs of Nicaragua. Equally dismayed, U.S. intelligence officials suggested that the Administration wanted to be seen, as one put it, as "tackling the Communist threat...
...First Pennsylvania Bank, the 23rd largest in the nation, the troubles were a bit murkier but just as painful. The FDIC put up $325 million in loans, while the 25 private banks, led by New York's Citibank, provided $175 million more -plus a $1 billion stabilizing credit line. In a stormy meeting with stockholders, the bank's new chairman, George Butler, 52, admitted that First Penn would lose $100 million in the current quarter...