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...briskly informed the Rome court where he and seven other defendants are standing trial, four of them in absentia, on charges related to the alleged conspiracy. Then, without prompting, Agca leveled his most startling allegation to date: "The order to kill the Pope came from the Soviet embassy in Sofia," he said slowly. "The first secretary of the Soviet embassy in Sofia paid 3 million marks...
...such as shorts, oversize shirts and tunics ($16 to $250). Gottex's stylish products can be found on beaches in 63 countries, including Jordan and Lebanon where they appear without the "Made in Israel" label. They cover some celebrated bodies, from Diana, Princess of Wales, and Spain's Queen Sofia to Elizabeth Taylor and Brooke Shields. Once when Henry Kissinger was in Jerusalem negotiating peace between the Arabs and Israel, his wife Nancy was given a special showing of Gottex products at the King David Hotel. She bought ten suits...
...former officials of the Bulgarian embassy in Rome, Jelio Kolev Vassilev, 43, and Todor Sotyanov Ayvazov, 42, are back home and have refused to return to Italy. The Bulgarian government has said that it will fully cooperate with the Italians. That raises the possibility of moving the hearing to Sofia at some point to take the absent defendants' testimony. Negotiations over just such a shift are now in progress...
Agca has testified that he and Celik began as terrorists by undertaking a variety of political crimes for pay. Though their primary ties were to the Gray Wolves, a right-wing Turkish terrorist organization, they apparently had no particular ideological motive. Agca claims that Celik was in Sofia, Bulgaria, when the plot to kill the Pope was hatched during July and August of 1980. Italian court documents allege that Celik "actively cooperated in the crucial stages of the planning, final agreement and execution of the attempt on the Pontiff." It was Celik, according to Agca, who purchased four Browning...
...given its first performance by Pianist Peter Serkin and the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Conductor Simon Rattle. Stephen Albert's ambitious RiverRun debuted at the Kennedy Center in Washington, under Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich with the National Symphony. In Manhattan, Violinist Gidon Kremer played the U.S. premiere of Soviet Composer Sofia Gubaidulina's knotty Offertorium with the New York Philharmonic, while across the East River, the Brooklyn Philharmonic presented the first indoor performance of Tobias Picker's frisky Keys to the City, written in 1983 to celebrate the Brooklyn Bridge's centenary. And Pittsburgh got the first hearing of Ned Rorem...