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...Strategic and International Studies, "then covert means of getting rid of him should be considered. We seem to be dealing in niceties. We think we can use the larger instruments of warfare to bring about his elimination, but that we shouldn't use the smaller ones, such as a pistol...
...convicted in 1981 of gravely wounding the Pope on May 13 of that year in St. Peter's Square, was working for Bulgarian agents and, by implication, the Soviet Union. The ten-month trial of Agca's alleged accomplices--and of Agca himself for illegal possession of the pistol that he used to shoot the Pope--ended when Prosecutor Antonio Marini handed the case to the jury without a closing summary. "There were no new arguments for me to rebut," he explained later...
...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...
...miles from the base and released their high-speed anti- radiation missiles (HARM). The missiles home in on radar waves and are designed to destroy the transmitter, not the missiles or launchers themselves. "We shot out the tires," said one Pentagon official. "We didn't need to fire a pistol through the windshield to take out the driver...
...offices in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday. Then, as the prominent Palestinian moderate and mayor stopped to chat with a local businessman, murder struck. At least one assassin walked up behind Masri and shot him three times in the back with a 7.65-mm pistol. Two of the bullets lodged in his heart. The unidentified hitman fled in the direction of the town's central market-place. Masri died shortly afterward...