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...government has begun staging "tax raids." Some 9,000 residents of Beit Sahur, near Bethlehem, were placed under curfew for a week after 300 townsfolk threw away their Israeli identity cards to protest orders to pay back taxes. When a mob stoned Israeli cars in the village of Beit Omer a few weeks ago, the authorities retaliated by refusing to issue market permits to 50 local fruit growers; now millions of dollars worth of plums are rotting on the trees. Money is growing scarce, especially in Gaza, as the Israelis impose punitive fines and present confiscatory bills for dwindling services...
...delivered its verdict. To the surprise of no one, the eight-member panel acquitted all three Bulgarian defendants on the technical grounds of insufficient evidence, following a formal recommendation made by Marini last month. Three of the Turkish defendants were acquitted on the same technicality. But one of them, Omer Bagci, was convicted of smuggling into Italy the Browning 9-mm semiautomatic pistol used in the shooting and was sentenced to three years in prison. Agca was also found guilty as charged and given an additional year in jail...
...Akif." Agca rejected Judge Santiapichi's suggestion that the mysterious Akif might actually be Sedat Sirri Kadem, an old school friend of Agca's. The next week Agca stuck to his claim that he had only two accomplices in the square and said that Akif was Turkish Terrorist Omer Ay, who is in a prison in Turkey and has not been accused in the conspiracy. Last week, however, Agca did not stop at Celik and Ay. After looking at photographs of the crowd in St. Peter's Square taken just before the assassination attempt, he declared that Akif was actually...
Agca, who along with seven other defendants faces charges related to a conspiracy to assassinate the Pope, also told presiding Judge Severino Santiapichi how he had purchased the weapon that was at one point passed to Defendant Omer Bagci and eventually used in the shooting. Agca refused to discuss previous claims of Bulgarian complicity in the plot, beyond assertions that "Bulgaria is guilty" and that he had been "threatened by the secret services of the Soviet Union and Bulgaria...
...prosecution scored a tentative first point last week when testimony by Turkish Defendant Omer Bagci, who allegedly had connections to a right-wing Turkish terrorist group, strengthened Agca's claims of a conspiracy. Bagci, 39, said that he had delivered a Browning 9-mm pistol to Agca in Milan four days before the shooting at the Vatican. Bagci's revelations could not have come at a better time for the prosecution. The same day, the mercurial Agca had stunned the court with the pronouncement that "the assault on the Pope is connected to the third secret of the Madonna...