Oregon daily emerald., May 15, 1981, Page 5, Image 5

Pope recovers from wounds
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope
John Paul II was reported mak
ing an excellent recovery
Thursday from bullet wounds
inflicted by a Turkish terrorist,
and despite mild depression
and the high risk of infection
was visited by two aides and a
Polish nun in his sterilized
hospital room.
Thousands flocked to St.
Peter’s Basilica to pray for the
pontiff, who was reported to
have received last rites when he
first entered the hospital. Police
interrogating his attacker said
he began a hunger strike and
claimed he was a Palestinian
sympathizer.
Meanwhile, Ann Odre, 58, of
Buffalo, N.Y., one of two women
wounded in the attack in St.
Peter’s Square Wednesday,
was reported in serious condi
tion after the removal of her
spleen. The other woman, Rose
Hall, 21, wife of a Protestant
minister serving U.S. forces in
Wuerzburg, West Germany, was
reported in good condition with
a severed nerve in the elbow.
Earlier reports had said Hall
—making the news—
From Associated Press Reports
WASHINGTON — House and Senate budget-writers
reached private agreement today on a budget plan setting a
spending ceiling of about $695 billion next fiscal year with a
deficit of roughly $37 billion, officials said.
As expected, the non-binding plan leaves room for
almost everything Pres. Reagan wants in the way of deep cuts
in taxes and spending.
Officials, emerging from two hours of private meetings,
said the final numbers remained to be worked out but
expressed confidence that could be done by the end of the
day.
“It’s a fragile thing, but I think we can get it over with,"
said Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., chairman of the Senate
Budget Committee.
Domenici and others said minor differences remained
over spending ceilings for education and transportation. But
they said that whatever the outcome, there would be only
minor changes in the overall spending and deficit figures.
Domenici also said the compromise plan would delete
any mention of a Senate-passed recommendation for a
three-month delay in 1982 in payment of cost-of-living
adjustments to Social Security and other pension recipients.
WASHINGTON — Despite stepped-up lobbying from the
administration, members of the Senate Finance Committee
are vowing to scale down Pres. Reagan’s proposed tax cut
and substitute a few features of their own.
“We fear it is inflationary,” Sen. Daniel Moynihan, D-N.Y.,
said after hearing Treasury Secretary Donald Regan extol the
benefits of the 30 percent, across-the-board tax cut that
Reagan says is needed over three years to bring the economy
out of the doldrums.
There was no evidence that Regan’s testimony had
eased the concerns of Finance Committee members, a
majority of whom oppose Pres. Reagan's plan.
Only two committee members, Sen. William Roth, R-Del.,
and Sen. Steven Symms, R-ldaho, formally endorsed the
Reagan proposal as hearings opened Wednesday. And Roth
co-authored it with Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y.
Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., the committee chairman, warned
again that Reagan did not have enough support on the panel
for the proposal.
was a Jamaican and was
wounded in the leg.
A medical bulletin issued at 9
a.m. by Rome’s Gemelli Poli
clinico Hospital said: "The
general conditions of the pope
are substantially unchanged. In
the 10 successive hours since
the first bulletin was issued, his
state of consciousness is much
better, with a little bit of activity
in the room. The post-operative
clinical limits are normal for
cardiovascular, respiratory and
metabolic activities. The prog
nosis is still guarded.”
But Dr. Francesco Crucitti,
one of the pope’s surgeons at
the hospital, said the pontiff was
making an "excellent’’
recovery. He said the pope, who
turns 61 Monday, remained
under mild sedation, receiving
intravenuous feeding, and that
the main worry was infection
over the next few days, "If we
can control this one, we may be
able to say we are out of the
woods,” he said
Italian police identified and
charged the suspect arrested
after the shooting. They named
him as escaped Turkish terrorist
Mehmet AM Agca, who had
threatened the pope’s life once
before.
Convicted in absentia and
sentenced to death in April 1980
for murdering a noted Turkish
newspaper editor, the
23-year-old suspect was descr
ibed by interrogators as a
"stoic, real quiet type.”
Police said Agca was on a
hunger strike. "At first, we
thought he was just nervous.
But he refuses to take anything
but water," said a spokesman
for Rome’s central police head
quarters w ere he has been
interrogated by Italy’s top
magistrates handling terrorist
caes.
He was charged with
attempted murder of the pope,
attempted murder of the two
women, illegal possession of
arms and carrying false
documents. He will be tried in
Italy and if convicted, he could
be sentenced to life term. The
death penalty is banned in Italy.
Gunman vowed to kill pope
ROME (AP) — Italian magistrates spent the
night interrogating the prime suspect in the
attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II,
apparently the same escaped Turkish assassin
who threatened the pope’s life once before.
Police said the man claimed he was Turkish,
gave his name as Nehmet Ali Agca, and said
i
repeatedly he “couldn’t care less about life.”
An investigation is underway to determine
whether he is in fact Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turkish
terrorist who escaped prison after confessing he
assassinated a noted Turkish newspaper editor.
Agca was convicted in absentia by a Turkish court
and sentenced to death for the editor’s murder.
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