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...security forces were also preoccupied with the possibility of an assassination attempt by some demented person acting alone-a fear heightened by the shooting of John Paul last year in St. Peter's Square by a Turkish terrorist and the attempt on his life last month in Portugal by a bayonet-wielding dissident priest. The Pope's special $400,000 yellow-and-white security vehicles-dubbed the four Popemo-biles-contained engineering features originally developed to defend vehicles against Catholic terrorists in Northern Ireland...
...Pope had come to Fátima, ironically, to fulfill a vow of gratitude to the Virgin Mary for having saved his life just a year earlier, when Turkish Assassin Mehmet Ali Agca shot him in St. Peter's Square. That attempt occurred on the very day, May 13, and almost at the same hour that three shepherd children tending their flocks in Fátima claimed to have seen the first of six apparitions of the Virgin, in 1917. To John Paul, his escape from death and his remarkable recovery from his wounds were nothing less than...
...Iraqi fighter jets were in the vicinity and told the pilot to turn back toward Ankara. Later Iranian officials also claimed that fragments of a Soviet-built Iraqi air-to-air missile had been retrieved from the wreckage, which was found in mountainous Iranian territory close to the Turkish border. In Baghdad, Iraqi officials said they "categorically denied the Iranian accusation...
Croissants first appeared in Vienna, Austria, in 1683, when the city's bakers created the distinctively crescent-shaped pastries to commemorate the barricaded city's successful stand against a besieging army of Ottoman Turks. The shape of the pastries was derived from the crescent emblem on the Turkish flag, which the Viennese citizens, in effect, symbolically devoured by driving off the Turks. The U.S. boom was started when Vie de France and other stores began making sandwiches with croissants. Says Michel Rebeilleau, manager of Au Croissant Chaud in Washington: "Ten years ago was ze time for ze crepe...
...January the Justice Commandos claimed responsibility for the shooting death of the Turkish consul general in Los Angeles...