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Police arrest Italian fugitive
ROME (AP)- Italy was expected to begin procedures
yesterday for the extradition of its most-wanted fugitive,
former mattress salesman Liceo Gelli, a key figure in a
political scandal that toppled an Italian government last
year, Justice Ministry sources said.
Gelli was arrested Monday in Geneva wltile trying to
withdraw "several tens of millions of dollars" from a Swiss
bank. The monev had he?*n transterrpd from a Smith
American branch of Italy's liquidated Banco Ambrosiano,
Swiss officials said.
A Swiss radio report said an anonymous telephone caller
told police Gelli was in the bank.
After learning of the arrest, Italian Premier Giovani
Spadolini briefed President Sandro Pcrtini and instructed
Interior Minister Virginio Rognoni to obtain further details
from the Swiss government.
Italian prosecutors said they expect the arrest to shed
some light into the collapse earlier this year of the Banco
Ambrosiano, previously the country's largest private bank,
and the death of its former president, Roberto Calvi.
Calvi, who apparently hanged himself from a London
bridge June 18, had arranged about $1.4 billion in loans to
Latin American countries that could not repay them.
Gelli, the grand master of the super-secret Masonic Lodge
Propaganda Due, or P-2, has been sought since May 1981,
when police seized a document at his home listing 953
prominent Italians and foreigners as lodge members.
Princess Grace dies in Monaco
MONTE CARLO, MONACO (AP) - Princess Grace of
Monaco died yesterday from injuries suffered Monday after
the car the former American film star was driving plunged
into a ravine. fliDDed and burned.
The princess was 53.
She was born Grace Kelly, the daughter of a Philadelphia
bricklayer-turned-billionaire. She made just 11 movies
before she gave up her acting career in 1956 to marry
Monaco's Prince Rainier and move to the small seaside
principality wedged between the French and Italian
Riv ieras.
Earlier the palace press office in the tiny Mediterranean
principality had said Princess Grace would be hospitalized
for 10 days.
The princess fractured her thigh in the Monday morning
crash, but it was reported that she received no other serious
injuries.
Aspokeswoman said the brakes failed on the car she was
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deep ravine. The car then caught fire.
Her younger daughter Stephanie, 17, who was with her,
was treated at the hospital for bruises and released shortly
after the accident.
A 62-year-old farmer, Sesto Lequio, said he and a neighbor
pulled Stephanie from the car "but we had to wait for the
firemen to remove Princess Grace. The firemen had to break
through the back window to remove her."
She won an Academy Award as best actress in 1955 for
"The Country Girl," in which she starred with Bing Crosby.
She met Rainier at the Cannes Film Festival in 1955, and
the romance flowered when he spent Christmas day at the
home of her parents.
The couple had two daughters, princesses Caroline and
Stephanie, and only one son, Crown Prince Albert. Princess
Caroline was married briefly to Frenchman Phillipe Junot,
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Not quite pennies from heaven
HOLLYWOOD (AP) - Hollywood is known for its glitter,
but motorists were still surprised when they found a freeway
paved with silver.
About $7,000 in dimes and quarters fell Monday morning
from the back of a Brink's truck, forcing closure of the
Hollywood Freeway for more than two hours after the coins
spread across four lanes.
California Highway Patrol officer Mark Lunn said there
were no reports of motorists trying to scoop up the money,
although another officer said a garbage truck driver was
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The coins fell out after the vehicle's back doors popped
open at about 9:15 a.m., Lunn said. Brink's officials said they
did not immediately know how much money was recovered.
Couple denies cruelty charges
CHARLESTON (AP) - There's nothing to stop a couple
accused of starving 13 horses found on a York County farm
from taking the animals to Florida, says a Humane Society
official.
Janet Sands, president of the Humane Society of York
County, said she can find no state law forbidding Daniel and
Marilyn Beran, formerly of York, from carrying out their
wish to take their Arabian horses to Florida
The Berans have denied the cruelty charges against them
regarding the horses, found starved and dehydrated in late
July.
Ms. Sands said the Humane Society tried but could not
place the horses with another family because there is not
existing South Carolina law that would allow them to do so.
If the horses are moved to Florida, Humane Society officials
are going to be sure they receive proper care, Ms.
Sands said, citing state laws that declare specific care must
be provided for horses while they are being transported.
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Evidence sue
NEW YORK (AP) ? NBC News
reported today that it had uncovered
evidence suggesting that Pope John
Paul II was targeted for assassination
with the knowledge and perhaps the
assistance of Soviet and Bulgarian
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NBC said the Pope was targeted
because of his connection to the
Solidarity labor movement in Poland.
NBC also disclosed that the Pope sent
a handwritten letter to Soviet
President Leonid Brezhnev in 1980 in
which ue threatened to lay down the
cross of St. Peter" and lead the
resistance by his Polish countrymen if
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to take% tough position against aborti<
new handbook of suggested tactics the
votes.
Anti-abortion groups, often using
against candidates they oppose, have
role in defeating a number of politici
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Dick Clark lost his Iowa Senate seat i
because of such tactics, and anti-aboi
partial credit for the demise of a nu
senators in the 1980 election.
"We're on to their tricks," said Suss
director of Voters for Choice, the politi
that Dut out the book
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a step-by-step guide to countering att<
groups from the basic decision on whs
abortion to how to counter last-minute 1
churches, a favorite tactic of anti-aborti
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100 pages, emphasizes that a Candida
supporting women's right to an abortio
will bring support, money and workers,'
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Massachusetts are on the Voters for
New fight beg
SEATTLE (AP) ? The American
Cancer Society has issued a call to
arms against the tobacco industry,
hoping to dispatch volunteers, instead
of paid lobbyists, to pressure
congressmen in the fight against
smoking.
Allan Jonas, chairman of the
society's national board, told the 13th
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as if it were solitaire. We have lost
nearly every battle to them. Now our
time has come."
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said the two-and-one-half million
member society has formed a Public
Issues Committee to coordinate
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Soviet troops moved in.
The letter, delivered by a Vatican
envoy, sparked a secret shuttle
mission between Moscow. Rome and
Warsaw that eventually led to a
temporary easing of the Soviet-Polish
attitude toward Solidarity, NBC said.
The NBC report came after a ninemonth
investigation by correspondent
Marvin Kalb and reporter Bill
McLaughlin. The network released
details of the investigation today in
advance of the airing of a
documentary, "The Man Who Shot the
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money into lobbyists because that's
one we can't win" against the wellheeled
tobacco industry, he said.
"Constituent pressure-getting
people to write letters or to walk the
halls of legislative bodies to talk to
their legislators-can be so much
more effective than hiring lobbyists."
In Raleigh, N.C., tobacco specialist
John Cyrus of the state Department of
Agriculture said tobacco industry
officials were aware severa' weeks
ago of the cancer society's plans.
He said state tobacco officials have
not made any plans to mount a
counter campaign but will listen
closely to what kind of information the
society puts out.
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NBC traces what it calls an unbroken
line from Mehmet Ali Agca,
the Turkish gunman convicted for the
May 198! shooting of the Pope to
organized crime elements in Turkey,
the Bulgarian secret service and the
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NBC said bank records show that
Agca deposited $10,000 two months
before the assassination of Turkish
newspaper editor Abdi Ipecki. Agca
was convicted of the murder but later
escaped from a maximum security
prison in Turkey.
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iacco industry
"We would just hope they would use
factual information and not use halftruths
and get them out of perspective."
Cvrus said.
Jonas said the cancer society "must
recruit all of our volunteers, acquaint
them with the tools of political activity
and make sure they get to know
their legislators."
One cause for optimism, Jonas said,
is in sheer numbers. "The majority of
us are non-smokers. Only about a
third of the country are smokers," he
said.
High on the list of targets, Jonas
said, is the federal tobacco subsidy, a
system of loan guarantees and services
such as quality grading that
funnels millions of tax dollars into a
product that he contends causes an
estimated 325,000 American deaths
each year.