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...well as his houseboat, single-engine plane, camper, two cars and the offices of his three private-detective agencies, turned up a collection of gadgets and paraphernalia worthy of both Inspector Clouseau and James Bond. It included a clerical collar, fake IDs and business cards, a .357 magnum pistol, a walking cane that contains a gun, another that conceals a dagger and yet a third that holds hidden vials. When authorities opened his safe-deposit box, No. 257 at a Norfolk branch of the Bank of Virginia, they found ten 100-oz. silver bars, currently worth some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Brother Makes Three | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy the Trial of the Century | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

Bagci's testimony also brought out the names of four Turks previously unmentioned in connection with the case: Mahmut Inan, Eyup Erdem, Oezdemir Vandettim and Uenal Erdal. The men, Bagci said, had helped him pass on to Agca the pistol that was used to shoot the Pope. Marini expressed hope that the court's move to subpoena three more Turks, held elsewhere in Western Europe, would produce fresh testimony. One of the three, Mehmet Sener, was convicted last week in Switzerland on heroin-smuggling charges. The court is also seeking to question a Turk identified as Aslam Samet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy the Trial of the Century | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

Acting on a tip from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, 40 Costa Rican security agents swooped down last week on a luxurious ranch-style home in the capital of San Jose. Inside they found $40,000 in cash, $150,000 in traveler's checks and a gold-plated pistol. They also discovered Sara Cosio Martinez, the 17-year-old niece of a Mexican politician, who had apparently been kidnaped earlier this month. Best of all, the police arrested Mexican Drug King Rafael Caro Quintero, 32, also known as El Chapo (Shorty). Said U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese: "We're dealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Costa Rica: El Chapo TRACKED DOWN | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...right up to the block seconds before the starting pistol, and then performed amazingly, would she change her ritual? "I might think it over a bit," the swimmer says...

Author: By Harry B. Lerner, | Title: Psyching Up With Superstition | 4/10/1985 | See Source »

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