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Balancing Brazil's despair was Italy's jubilation. Pandemonium erupted throughout the nation. In Rome teenagers races, toward Trevi Fountain following the final gun. According to officials reports, seven seconds after the game had ended the first fans had already reached the fountain. They jumped in fully clothed and joyously refused to be fished out by surrounding policemen...
...Pope John Paul II touched down in Costa Rica last week, attention in Rome was distracted by new developments related to one of the darkest hours of the Pontiffs reign. Ever since the 1981 assassination attempt in St. Peter's Square, suspicion has grown that the convicted Turkish gunman, Mehmet Ali Agca, took his orders from Bulgarian agents, who in turn might have been acting with the knowledge of the Soviet Union. To date, Italian investigators have arrested one Bulgarian official in Rome for alleged complicity in the plot, and accused two others. Now Italian officials have begun examining...
...warnings, which do not amount to formal charges, stem from Agca's statements to an Italian magistrate last fall that he had accomplices in his attempt on the Pope's life. Not only had Sergei Ivanov Antonov, the head of 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...
...Salvatore Scordo, a former union employee in the same union as Scricciolo. The seven alleged conspirators reportedly concluded that a shooting attempt was too risky, and decided instead to explode a bomb in Walesa's hotel room or in a nearby parked car. The resulting blast in downtown Rome, Judge Imposimato concluded, would have caused "a massacre." The alleged murder plot was never carried out, for reasons that are still unclear...
...newspaper of a left-wing Italian political party of which Scricciolo was a member. Scricciolo vehemently denies any part in a conspiracy to kill the Polish union leader and says he knows no military secrets. Dismissing the new allegations, the Bulgarian embassy in Rome declared, "It is unavoidable that a new stage in the campaign of slander and provocation is beginning." Under Italian law, investigating magistrates do not need to explain their decisions as they prepare a case, but it seems that Agca's charges alone prompted Judge Imposimato to issue the warnings last week. Agca has changed...