Page4-Tuesday, May 19, 1981-The Michigan Daily
Police doubt
conspiracy in
Pope's shooting
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From AP and UPI
ROME - Poliee investigating the
shooting of Pope John Paul II said
yesterday there is only a "very, very
remote" chance the accused gunman is
part of an international conspiracy.
While Interpol agents in other
countries were checking statements
made by the suspect, Mehmet Ali Agca,
about his travels since fleeing a Turkish
prison, Italian authorities circulated
pictures of two of his hometown friends
to Italian newspapers.
POLICE SAID THE two whose pic-
tures they had, Mehmet Sener, 25, and
Oral Gelik, 23, were from Malatya,
Turkey, Agca's hometown. Although no
arrest warrants are out for them in
Italy, Turkish police said they were
connected to terrorist murders there.
Sener was accused of providing Agca
with the gun used to assassinate a
Turkish journalist in February 1979.
Agca was awaiting trial for that killing
when he escaped in November 1979.
In Turkey, official sources said a
teacher and a former policeman were
arrested in connection with the false
passport used by Agca. Arrested were
Farik Ozgun, whose name was on the
passport; Jerhan Ender, a former
policeman whose photo was on the
passport, and Ibrahim Kurt, suspected
of getting the false documents needed
for the passport. Ozgun had been
arrested earlier in Turkey.
ALFREDO LAZZERINI, chief of the
anti-terrorist police squad and head of
the papal shooting investigation, said
there is no evidence the two whose pic-
tures are being circulated were ever in
Italy or involved in the pope's shooting.
He said authorities are trying to check
them out to determine if they may have
aided Agca in the 18 months between
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his prison escape and the pope's
shooting.
"He (Agca) may have been a hired
killer, or he may not have been," Laz-
zerini said. "As for an international
conspiracy, it's a very, very remote
possibility."
Newspapers reported the mother of
,the pope's accused assailant was
seeking forgiveness from the pope.
John Paul said Sunday in a tape-
recorded message for worshippers in
St. Peter's Square that he had "sin-
cerely pardoned" Agca.
VATICAN OFFICIALS said Sunday's
papal "pardon" would not affect
criminal proceedings against Agca,
who is charged with attempted murder.
One of the two American women
wounded in the attack, Ann Odre, 58, of
Buffalo, N.Y., underwent a second
operation for a temporary intestinal
bypass similar to the one the pontiff
"received earlier. Her general condition
was described as satisfactory.
The other American, Rose Hill, 21,
who lives in Frankfurt, West Germany,
was in good condition and may be able
to leave the hospital in about one week.
MEANWHILE, POPE John Paul was
moved from the intensive care unit to a
general care hospital room, yesterday,
his 61st birthday. In St. Peter's Square,
where the pope was wounded five days
ago, 31 cardinals led prayers in a
special birthday Mass, attended by
6,800 people.
Cardinal Carlo Confalonieri, 87-year-
old dean of the Sacred College of Car-
dinals, celebrated the Mass in St.
Peter's Basilica.
He asked: "Why was the pope at-
tacked, he who is the unarmed
messenger of the good news, the un-
tiring testimony of peace and love on
the world's roads. Why raise the armed
hand of violence and hatred against one
who raises his hands only to embrace
children, to caress the sick, to comfort
and bless all those who approach him?"
The pope remains under 24-hour
medical supervision and still-must un-
dergo surgery to close the temporary
intestinal bypass performed after the
shooting.
In Brief
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press International reports
Habib resumes shuttle
to avert Mideast war
BEIRUT, Lebanon - U.S. envoy Philip Habib resumed his Damascus-
Beirut-Jerusalem shuttle today after a side trip to Saudi Arabia, seeking
support for his mission to avert a Mideast war over Syrian anti-aircraft
missiles in Lebanon.
Not long before Habib touched down at Damascus airport, the official
Syrian news agency SANA reported President Hafez Assad had repeated his
warning against an Israeli military move against the missiles, indicating he
had no intention of giving in to Israeli demands that they be removed.
In a Damascus Radio statement late Sunday, Assad said, "Syria will
strongly resist any attempt by Israel to intervene in Lebanon's internal af-
fairs or to escalate its aggression against the country."
He blamed Israel for escalating tension to "justify an attack on Lebanon
aimed at liquidating the Palestinian resistance" guerrillas.
"In my opinion, Saudi Arabia is not capable of playing any useful role
whatsoever," Begin told newsmen yesterday. "It is one of the most corrupt
states in the world, a reactionary, Middle Ages regime, concentrated in the
hands of one family."
GM workers may have
more say in decision-makin
DETROIT - General Motors Corp. wants to give more decision-making
authority to lower-level managers and workers as part of its drive to in-
crease productivity, top GM executives said yesterday.
"Given the chance, people will do good work and make good decisions,"
said GM Industrial Relations Vice President Alfred S. Warren. "And they
must be given the chance to do so."
GM and the UAW are seeking to involve workers more completely in their
jobs through various Quality of Work Life programs, often including round-
table discussions on local plant problems.
Irving Bluestone, former UAW vice president and head of the union's
General Motors Department, warned that Quality of Work Life programs
won't succeed unless workers are elevated from what he described as
"second-class citizen" status.
Effort to end strike, falters;
union breaks off bar gaining
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strike against the soft coal industry faltered again yesterday over the issue
of job security, and the union broke off bargaining.
An hour after negotiations resumed here following a weekend break, chief
industry representative Bobby R. Brown told reporters the talks were
recessing indefinitely.
In intense bargaining over the last several days, the parties have
remained deadlocked on the volatile -issue of how much work the coal com-
panies can subcontract tq non-union operations.
Asked whether the industry had in effect given the union atake-it-or-leave-
it offer, United Mine Workers President Sam Church replied: "We've
discussed many of the issues. We haven't been able to agree yet so I have to,
under our constitution, make periodic reports to update them (the
bargaining council) and look for guidance."
Church said it would probably be Wednesday or Thursday before the
bargainers could be assembled at the UMW's international headquarters
here to assess the situation.
Author William Saroyan
dies of cancer at age 72
FRESNO, Calif. - William Saroyan, the writer who tried "to express the
individuality of people" in such works as the Pulitzer Prize-winning play
"The Time of Your Life" and the novel "The Human Comedy," died of can-
cer yesterday at the age of 72.
The Armenian author was only 26 when he became famous in 1934 by win-
ning the O'Henry Award for his first major short story, "The Daring Young
Man On the Flying Trapeze."
It was the product of a period when Saroyan turned out a short story daily
for a month, refining his philosophy that "speed and brevity is the point out
of which comes unified work."
Alabama police search for
convicts after prison breakout
ATMORE, Ala. - Lawmen used elicopters and bloodhounds yesterday to
search for four of eight inmates who broke out of Alabama's maximum
security prison.
Ron Tate, spokesman for Holman Correctional Facility, said four of the
inmates were captured yesterday, apparently as they were trying to make
their way to nearby Interstte 65.
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