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...indicate that Agca spent time in Spain. He is known to have visited Tunisia. Agca claims to have traveled to Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Britain, France, Belgium, West Germany and Denmark. But it was to Austria, which Agca did not mention, that authorities traced the 9-mm Browning pistol used at St. Peter's. The weapon apparently was stolen from a retired gunsmith near Vienna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Not Yet Hale, but Hearty | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

...just there, floating from the left of the frame into the proceedings of history, like a shark's fin at the edge of a crowd splashing at the beach, moves a disembodied hand and its tense instrument, a blue-black pistol. It is poised there forever. And then it explodes at the Pope's white robe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hand of Terrorism | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

...woman was right. Police recovered a Belgian-made Browning 9-mm semiautomatic pistol, similar to a 38-cal. gun, flung away by the would-be killer after the shooting. *A strange charge to hurl at the present Pope, though the historical memory of the Crusades still rankles among some Muslims. They were military expeditions from Christian Europe aimed at reconquering the Palestinian shrines of Jesus' life from their Islamic occupiers. The First Crusade was inspired by Pope Urban II in 1095, and his successors encouraged several more. But the eighth and last Crusade ended in 1270, more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hand of Terrorism | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

...shroud of insecurity hangs over the capital. It has been underscored by several alarming incidents in recent weeks. The first occurred in late January, when a group of pistol-packing youths forced their way into the United Nations staff house in the diplomatic section of Kabul, where a Saudi Arabian reception was taking place. The intruders locked up all the diplomats present, then made off with the building's sophisticated radio equipment, television sets and other valuables. The Saudis severed relations with Afghanistan after the incident, but the robbers have never been apprehended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: A Shroud of Insecurity | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...Switzerland, where target shooting is almost a national pastime, nobody needs to carry a pistol to bolster his ego. Members of the N.R.A., please grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 20, 1981 | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

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