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After years of preparation, one of the most complex and controversial criminal proceedings ever entered upon gets under way this week when eight men charged with conspiring to assassinate Pope John Paul II go on trial in Rome's criminal court. Mehmet Ali Agca, 27, the Turkish terrorist who was sentenced to life imprisonment after he shot the Pope in St. Peter's Square four years ago, is expected to be the central figure during the initial phases of the trial...
...Reagan meant to set the past to rest, Bitburg brought it back to angry life. Yet there were many voices muttering, "Must we hear about the Holocaust again?" There have, after all, been other great tragedies in history--the Turkish slaughter of the Armenians, Stalin's liquidation of millions of kulaks and the enforced famine in the Ukraine in 1932-33, the destruction of perhaps 2 million Kampucheans by their own Khmer Rouge countrymen...
...cast together in a real-life drama, but that is what happened when Arthur Miller, 69, and Harold Pinter, 54, traveled to Turkey for PEN, the international association of writers in which both are vice presidents of their national sections. Miller and Pinter spent five days meeting with Turkish politicians and fellow writers as well as monitoring progress in the trial of 48 members of the Turkish Peace Association. The defendants, most of whom are writers, have been on trial for 18 months and face prison terms of from five to 15 years. The experience left the playwrights worn...
...gate was originally built by the Romans as part of the defensive wall around Jerusalem and served as one of several entrances to the city. The gate visible today was built on top of the Roman gate in the mid-16th century by the Turkish Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, but recent diggings have revealed parts of the old gate, Rosovsky says...
...interpret the Reagan Doctrine as merely a puffed-up rationale for Nicaraguan policy is like calling the Truman Doctrine a cover for a new Greek and Turkish policy. In both cases, the principles established have a much more profound implication...