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FOOTNOTE: *The oral reminiscences came into the hands of Time Inc. in 1970 and were the basis for the volume of memoirs Khrushchev Remembers. Time Inc. donated the tapes to Columbia University, which allowed ABC to broadcast them for the first time...
TIME originally submitted six written questions, and Gorbachev then agreed to supplement his written answers with oral ones to other questions. Herewith the slightly condensed transcripts of the written interview, followed by more than two hours of conversation with his American visitors...
Agca's deferential new testimony was laced with contradictions as in the past. Three weeks ago Agca testified that only two Turks had accompanied him to St. Peter's Square: Co-Defendant Oral Celik, who is being tried in absentia, and a man Agca identified simply as "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...
...Oral history has long been recognized as a legitimate and fertile form. But what about oral biography? Well, when it concerns Norman Mailer, the enduring enfant terrible, perpetual showman, seigneurial collector of wives and children, and protean writer, it amounts to a genre all by itself. Journalist Peter Manso sets out the lengthy musings of friends and enemies, editors and critics--almost anyone who has anything significant to say and some who do not--including Mailer's overprotective mother ("Running for mayor (of New York) was a mistake, and I told him, 'You don't understand all the spiteful things...
...missing defendants, Oral Celik, a 26-year-old Turk, presents the greatest mystery. In Martella's 1,243-page indictment, Celik stands accused not only of having helped orchestrate the purported plot but of actually firing, as Agca did, at the Pope. Celik, the indictment says, escaped from St. Peter's Square in the confusion that followed the assassination attempt and has eluded authorities since...