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...evening shadows, amid pilgrims' candles and prayers, dressed in clerical garb and brandishing a 16-in. bayonet. Just as Pope John Paul II mounted the steps of the Basilica of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal, carrying his own candle toward an altar outside the shrine, the black-clad figure lunged toward him. An alert Portuguese security guard swiftly wrestled the attacker into custody, but not before the man had come within a scant 3 ft. of John Paul. The Pope, indeed, was jostled as other security men pounced on the assailant, but frowning slightly in concern, the Pontiff...
...three papal excursions, the Fatima visit was by far the easiest to decide. For some time the Pope has wanted to visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima to give thanks for his recovery from the attempted assassination of last May 13-the 64th anniversary of the first apparition of the Virgin at Fatima...
...Polish trip would create its own problems. During his moving and momentous Polish tour of 1979, the Pope indicated that he wanted to return in August 1982 for the sixth centennial of the icon of the Black Madonna, the center of the nation's major shrine. Last week, on the very day that martial-law authorities were breaking up demonstrations in a dozen or more Polish cities, the Pope told pilgrims in the Vatican gardens: "I am morally obliged to be together with my countrymen for this great anniversary...I hold this to be a duty of mine...
...then ran toward the Dome of the Rock, one of the two main mosques on the Temple Mount. The rock, at the center of the shrine, is the traditional site where Abraham is said to have offered Isaac as a sacrifice. It is also the place from which, according to Muslim tradition, the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven on a horse. As an Arab guard attempted to block his entry to the mosque, Goodman shot and killed him, then fired wildly into a group of tourists who had raised their hands as a sign of surrender. A rain of shattered...
Shouting, "revenge, revenge" and firing recklessly into a crowd of worshippers, Alan Harry Goodman--a deranged Israeli solider--murdered two Arabs while they prayed at Islan's third-holiest shrine, Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock Mosque. Goodman critically wounded four other Muslims before he was arrested...