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...Times said that Mantarov defected in July 1981, two months after the failed assassination. While being debriefed by French intelligence officials, Mantarov reportedly said that a close friend in the Bulgarian state security agency named Dimiter Savov had given him details about a KGB plan to murder the Pontiff...
...described as a "purely pastoral" visit. But as Pope John Paul IPs eight-day trip to Central America and Haiti drew to a close last week, the dividing line between religion and politics seemed to have all but disappeared. On none of his previous 16 foreign voyages had the Pontiff so consistently called for social justice, and seldom have his words and gestures been so carefully watched. Said a Vatican official traveling with the Pope: "Even when he says Mass it seems to have political implications...
...that he was no friend of anti-Communists who violate human rights. During a private meeting at Guatemala's National Palace, he chastised the President, General Efrain Rios Montt, for executing six men, who had been convicted of subversive activity, on the eve of the papal visit. The Pontiff saved some of his strongest criticism of injustice for a Mass attended by President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier in Haiti...
...national superior of Mansour's order, Sister M. Theresa Kane, became famous during Pope John Paul II's visit to Washington, D.C., in 1979 when, on national television and with the Pontiff listening a few feet away, she politely but firmly criticized her church for barring women as priests...
...Bulgaria's Balkan Airlines office in Rome, and two embassy officials plotted the shooting of the Pope in May, Agca reportedly told investigating Judge Ilario Martella, they had also plotted the murder of Walesa when he journeyed to Rome four months earlier for his meeting with the Pontiff. Agca said an Italian union official was involved in the plan. That man, Judge Martella reasoned, may have been Luigi Scricciolo, an Italian labor union official who had helped plan Walesa's trip to Italy. In a separate investigation, Scricciolo has been charged with espionage and with acting...