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...reports on the Pope's condition. Says Kalb: "When I had a minute to breathe later that evening, I realized that I had been more saddened than surprised by the fact that someone would shoot the Pope. And that saddened me more than anything else." Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn was in Beirut reporting on the current confrontation between Israel and Syria when he received news of the attack. Wynn, who was in Manila in 1970 when a knife-wielding Bolivian fanatic lunged at Pope Paul VI, hurried back to Rome to cover his second attempted papal assassination...
...Richard N. Ostling. Reported by Wilton Wynn with John Paul...
...Griggs/Munich and Wilton Wynn with the Pope
...Israeli and U.S. intelligence agents. A top State Department official wearily dismissed the accusation as nonsense. The chances were that interested parties would believe whatever they wanted to believe as they kept choosing up sides in this nasty little war. -By Marguerite Johnson Reported by William Stewart/Khorramshahr and Wilton Wynn/Beirut
Amusements were much in demand, and desperate hosts tried virtually everything to protect their guests from boredom. The Duke of Devonshire installed a private theater at Chatsworth, and Lord Pembroke held an annual cricket week at Wilton. The Duke of Westminster was famous for his shoots. At half past ten, recalled one visitor, the Duke would approach the gentlemen in the crowd and inquire, "Care to come out and see if we can pick up a pheasant or two?" By lunchtime a thousand dead birds littered the grounds. "The Duke never shot after lunch," noted one visitor, "but while...