Word: rome
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...look at the battle-ready Sixth Fleet, Rome Correspondent Sam Allis visited the U.S. carrier Saratoga earlier in March. There, he was catapulted into the sky, with his back facing forward, in a windowless section of a transport plane. "The G forces as we shot off the deck rendered us journalists, for once, helpless, very humble people," says Allis. "As for landing, I found it rather comforting not to see just how small the flight deck looked from...
Mehmet Ali Agca was at it again. "I am Jesus Christ," bellowed the man who shot Pope John Paul II. "All the world will be destroyed." The now familiar outburst came on March 22, the final day of the marathon "Bulgarian connection" trial in Rome. The prosecution's aim: to prove that the Turkish gunman, who was 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...
Half of the defendants were absent throughout the trial. The sole Bulgarian in court was Sergei Antonov, 37, the bespectacled deputy chief of Rome's Balkan Air office, who has been in Italian custody since 1982 and allegedly helped plan the plot. His presumed accomplices, Todor Aivazov, 43, and Zhelyo Vassilev, 44, Bulgarian embassy officials in Rome at the time of the shooting, were safely home in Sofia. Both left Italy shortly before Antonov's arrest as part of what Bulgarian officials called a normal embassy rotation. Two of the four Turkish defendants were also missing. Oral Celik...
...Italy's judicial system and set off some internal political dissension. Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti remained openly skeptical about the Bulgarian connection and quietly restored full diplomatic relations with Sofia. Even the Vatican has re-established links: two years ago, John Paul II received Bulgaria's new Ambassador to Rome...
From the burning of the U.S. embassy in Tripoli in 1979 to his outspoken support for the murderous attacks at the Rome and Vienna airports last December, Muammar Gaddafi has left a trail of blood and destruction during the past decade. Acting Ambassador-at-Large Robert Oakley told Congress in February that while Syria and Iran "remain very much involved" in fomenting international terrorism, "over the past six months Libya has become by far the most active, especially against American and European travelers. If it cannot be stopped, others can be expected to follow...