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Pope offers Mass, forgives attacker VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope John Paul II rose from his ho spital bed and celebrated Mass Sunday for the first time since he was wounded, and doctors said barring setbacks he will fully recover from the bullet wounds of a would-be assassin four days ago. Dr. Emilio Tresalt, chief of the medical staff at the pope’s ho spital, said in reply to questions the pope will fully recover unless there are setbacks. He said the pope will soon be moved out of the intensive care ward — perhaps on his 61st birthday Monday — and should be able to leave the hospital “in about a month.” The pope sat in a chair for about a half hour, a medical bulletin said, after saying in a tape-recorded Mass that he for gives “that brother of ours who shot me.” The papal message, in a soft but unfaltering voice, was played to a throng in St. Peter's Square. It brought relief and tears to listeners, who were hearing the pope for the first time since he was wounded Wednesday. Meanwhile, Rome's police headquarters said two — not three — bullets are believed to have been fired by the accused Turkish gunman, wounding the pope and two American pilgrims who were in St. Peter’s Square. No major leads were reported in the investigation of whether the shooting was a conspiracy Some newspapers, quoting un named sources, hinted at a second gunman, but police publicly denied this. "With deep emotion, I thank you for your prayers and I bless you all,” the pope said in a message which was recorded at Rome’s Gemelli Policlinico Ho spital and played over a loud speaker a short time later for the crowd in St. Peter’s Square. Poles pray for Pope, ill cardinal WARSAW, Poland - Poles wept at the sound of Pope John Paul M’s voice Sunday, and in Krakow, where he was once archbishop, 380,000 faithful prayed for his recovery from gunshot wounds. Banners pro claimed, “Queen of Poland, Return Our Pope to the World.” Poles also prayed Sunday for the dying primate of their Roman Catholic Church, Car dinal Stefan Wyszynski, who once was John Paul's mentor and who for 33 years was the embattled church’s unwavering leader. The huge iron gates of Wys zynski’s Warsaw residence were adorned with purple and red tulips Sunday, and inside, the bed-ridden 79-year-old car dinal was in serious condition with what church officials have described only as a "gastric illness.” Power plants emperiled WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation’s electric power system is vulnerable to major interruptions from sabotage or terrorism, and the federal government is doing little about it, the congres sional auditing agency says. The power system has never suffered a na tional disruption or a long-term regional disrup tion, the General Accounting Office noted, but is "highly vulnerable because its components are widely dispersed, operated in a low manpower environment, have minimal security and are highly interdependent." A GAO report released last week said the agency’s investigators studied an unidentified region with 120 separate utilities. "An attack on just eight substations could result in widespread power outages, with ca scading blackouts throughout the electrical grid. In addition, major metropolitan areas in the region could be without power for several days and be subject to rotating blackouts for over a year,” the report said. "Damage to four substations could actually place one city on interruptible power for up to a year,” it warned. “One substantion’s key components could be damaged using a rifle and leave an important defense-related facility without power.” The Emergency Electric Power Administra tion in the Energy Department has only two staff members, working less than full-time, working on emergency planning, the report said. In December 1979, the EEPA administrator said the two-person planning program was “barely alive," the GAO added. Demos protest Reagan benefit cuts WASHINGTON (AP) - Wniie other Democrats are branding Pres. Reagan’s latest Social Security plan “inhumane, un fair” and “a rotten thing to do,” the chairman of the House panel charged with fashioning the legislation says he can work with the administration propo sals. “We're going to try to find some common ground,” Rep. J.J. Pickle, D-Texas, chairman of the House Social Security subcommittee, said in an inter view. He saia me major amerence between the legislation his subcommittee has been work ing on and the Reagan propo sals is that ‘‘he has deeper cuts and more abruptly.” House Speaker Thomas O’N eill, D-Mass., called the Reagan plan ‘ despicable” and “a rotten thing to do.” He suggested that few members in Congress would be ‘‘stonehearted enough to vote for it." Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd said Reagan's call tot a iu percern cut m oociai Security benefits by 1986 is “in humane, unfair” and that Congress will not accept it. CASH For Textbooks Mon.-Fri. Smith Family Bookstore 768 E. 13th 1 Bl. 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