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...Ford Escorts moved unobtrusively down a quiet, tree-lined avenue in Restelo, an affluent suburb of Lisbon. One stopped outside the driveway of the Turkish embassy; the other turned sharply, burst through the compound's 3-ft.-high iron gates and jolted to a halt. An armed man advanced on the embassy, wounded a police sentry in a burst of fire and was in turn shot dead by a Turkish security guard. As Portuguese policemen hurried toward the scene, four other intruders raced into the adjacent ambassador's residence and seized its only occupants, Cahide...
...assault was conducted by only one of a number of well-organized teams of radical Armenian terrorists. According to Western intelligence agents, some of the groups are pro-Western, some are Communist. But all are pledged to similar objectives. Among them: to force Turkish acknowledgment of and to avenge the alleged 1915 massacre of more than 1 million Armenians; and to gain political autonomy over their lost homeland, a 57,000-sq.-mi. region located along Turkey's border with the Soviet Union. Turkey has long maintained that the Armenian claims are baseless...
...charge: the attempt on Pope John Paul II's life in 1981, declared Italian authorities last winter, had the backing of the Bulgarian secret service, presumably acting on orders from the Soviet Union. But the accusation depended on the secret confession of the gunman convicted of the shooting, Turkish Terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca, and as the unhurried investigation into his claims continued without producing further important revelations, interest in the case slowly dwindled. Now the intrigue has leaped suddenly back to life. As he was taken from a Rome police station last week, Agca surprised waiting reporters by publicly...
...soon as the situation in Poland "develops successfully." This, he said, could occur at a "not distant date," though he would not be more precise. Jaruzelski gave the Pope two gifts: a breastplate of hussar's armor, from the battle in which Polish troops helped end the Turkish siege of Vienna exactly 300 years ago, and a painting of the Tatra Mountains, in which John Paul enjoyed hiking when he was Archbishop of Cracow...
...actresses. But in her current role as Greece's Minister of Culture, Mercouri was seeking publicity not for herself but for a favorite cause: the Elgin Marbles, which were the Acropolis Marbles before the Seventh Earl of Elgin removed them in 1801 with the agreement of the occupying Turkish Ottoman Empire. Athens says it wants them back; the British say that the Greeks have, terribly sorry, permanently lost then-marbles. During her tour of the museum, Mercouri admitted that the priceless sculptures were "very well kept. But on foreign earth." Did she really think Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher would...