Agca Outburst Opens Trial Over Papal Assassination Plot
Rome prosecutor presses two Bulgarian diplomats and five others on charges of conspiring to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. Mehmet Ali Agca interrupted proceedings with inflammatory shouts, later kept silent as judge Severino Santiapichi rejected defense bids to drop the Bulgarians’ case. The trial, potentially nine months, tests immunity and international roles in the shooting.
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Rome
John Paul II
Mehmet Ali Agca
Jesus Christ
Agca
Severino Santiapichi
Antonio Marini
John Paul
Marini
Todor Aivazov
Zhelya Kolev Vassilev
Italy
Manfredo Rossi
Bulgaria
Sergei Ivanov Antonov
Omer Bagci
Musa Serdar Celebi
Poland
Solidarity Free Trade Union Movement
Antonov
Balkan Air
Agea
Oral Celik
St. Peter’s Square
Aivazov
Vassilev
Ilario Martella
Notices Ordered Palestinians to Leave West Bank After Prisoner Exchange
Jewish settlers posted over 1000 notices in English Hebrew and Arabic around Nablus warning Palestinians who returned after a prisoner exchange to depart. Defense Minister Rabin defended releasing 1150 Arab prisoners amid a heated parliament debate as clashes over security and peace persist.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Nablus
West Bank
Yitzhak Rabin
Lebanon
Rabin
Jordan River
Gaza Strip
Geneva
Switzerland
Libya
Al-Najah University
Balata
Zev Saffer
Elon Moreh
Saffer
Associated Press
Samarian Hills
Jerusalem
Boat capsized in Chambal River floods Madhya Pradesh
A boat carrying 75 passengers to a festival capsized in the Chambal River near Dholpur Madhya Pradesh. 58 people drowned including 25 children while survivors reached shore or were rescued. Relief 80 per victim and an official probe ordered.
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New Delhi
India
Chambal
United News of India
UNI
Madhya Pradesh
Dholpur
Rajasthan
Exploding Tankers Kill and Mourn in Algeciras Scene
Navy divers searched off the Rock of Gibraltar for 17 missing after two tankers Petragon One and Campanavia exploded while unloading Libyan naphtha. Ten of 18 bodies found were identified. death toll could reach 40 as officials assess the disaster at the Gibraltar refinery and nearby wharf. King Juan Carlos and Vice Prime Minister Alfonso Guerra visited the injured at La Linea hospital.
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Algeciras
Spain
Rock of Gibraltar
Antonio Fernandez
Cadiz
Gibraltar
Spanish Petroleum Co
Federico Lazaro Guill
Juan Carlos
Alfonso Guerra
Social Security
la Linea de la Concepcion
Septuplets' mom to go home soon
Patricia Frustaci, mother of premature septuplets, is moving from intensive care to a private room and could leave the hospital by Wednesday. The five surviving babies, Baby A through Baby E, remain in critical but stable condition at Children’s Hospital of Orange County.
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Orange
Calif
Patricia Frustaci
Children’s Hospital of
Orange County
Sharon Braun
Frustadi
St. Joseph Hospital
Donna Berman
Frustaci
Debra Conkey
America
Three Mile Island may reauthorize unit 1 restart
After six years of hearings, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission weighs a possible restart of Unit 1 at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania. Opponents rally for a prolonged court fight and civil disobedience while GPU Nuclear touts improved training and updated equipment.
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Three Mile Island
Tmi
Pennsylvania
Eric Epstein
Paula Kinney
Middletown
Jimmy Carter
General Public Utilities Corp
GPU Nuclear
Oyster Creek
N.J
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Rajiv Gandhi
Iran
Iraq
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Cyprus
Islamic Republic
Tehran
Baghdad
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