Trial opens as Agca admits pope shooting in Rome
Mehmet Ali Agea, 23, admits shooting Pope John Paul I in St. Peter's Square on May 13. Prosecutor seeks life imprisonment, calling Agea a man of hate and violence. Agea refuses Vatican trial and threatens hunger strike if not transferred within five months. Prosecution notes 28 witnesses offered little on motives.
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Lucia Guiducci
Mehmet Ali Agca
Agca
Rome
Pope John Paul II
St. Peter’s Square
Jeinsterday
Mehmet Ali Agea
John Paul I
Nicole Amato
Agea
Vatican
St. Peter's Square
Pietro d'Ovidio
Severino Santiapichi
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Officials visit Maze Prison hunger strikers ends in impasse
Belfast officials made a sudden 2 a.m. trip to the Maze Prison to end the hunger strike and spare Kieran Doherty from death but the talks stalled over demands. Doherty, on day one without food, and Kevin Lynch, in his 60th day, faced a deteriorating health outlook as six other inmates fasted.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPI
Maze
Taday
Kieran Doherty
Kevin Lynch
Brendan McFarlane
Dublin
Garret FitzGerald
Patrick Agnew
Doherty
Agnew
FitzGerald
Andersonstown
West Belfast
Polish talks aim to avert dockers and LOT strikes
Solidarity and government negotiators in Gdynia and Warsaw pressed urgent talks to avert two major strikes that could test the new Communist Party leadership. Dockworkers threatening a Thursday walkout seek better conditions and LOT employees want more company control including director selection.
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Warsaw
Poland
UPI
Solidarity
Communist Party
Gdynia
Baltic
LOT
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Communist Party Congress
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