Agca says he waited a year for help to break out
Mehmet Ali Agca testified in a Rome court that his alleged accomplices promised to arrange his escape from prison, prompting a year before cooperating with authorities in the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II. He said a Vatican employee's missing daughter is alive and identified two co conspirators in photos, then questioned the identifications.
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Severino Santiapichi
Farm workers identify Mengele suspect as “Peter” in Brazil
SAO PAULO Brazil AP farm workers in southeastern Brazil identified photos of the man they know as Peter as the secretive foreigner believed to be Nazi fugitive Dr Josef Mengele. Romeu Tuma Sao Paulos federal police chief disclosed the identification as experts continue examining 208 bones alleged to be Mengele remains.
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Shiite militia closes in on Chatilla holdouts
In Beirut the Amal Shiite militia surrounds Palestinians in the Chatilla refugee camp’s mosque and adjacent school firing grenades and facing sniper fire. Militants advance as leaders announce a joint security force to guard around American University. Police report 12 killed in daytime fighting. Thomas Sutherland abducted earlier, the fourth university official seized since December.
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Amal
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School of Agriculture
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Bomb mishap Injures GI at Woodbridge Air Base
A loading crew at a U.S. Air Force base near Woodbridge England dropped a bomb during handling on a US warplane. The conventional explosive device broke an American sergeant's leg, according to an unnamed base spokesman.
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Israel shoots down pilotless Syrian plane on border
At noon on Thursday Israeli gunners downed a pilotless Syrian reconnaissance drone on the Lebanon border, the first such report by Israel. No further details were released and the event marks the first acknowledged Syrian drone downing by Israel.
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