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.
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Turkish ambassador
says Agca paid off
NEW YORK (AP) - The Tur
kish ambassador to the United
States said Sunday that the man
accused of wounding Pope
John Paul II last week in Rome
was a "professional killer" hired
and shielded by an unidentified
international right-wing political
group.
Ambassador Sukru Elegdad
also alleged that the group
moved Mehmet Ali Agca
through seven European coun
tries prior to the shooting,
providing him with money and
false identities after his escape
from a Turkish prison in 1979.
“I understand this man has
been taken over by some inter
national terrorist organization,”
Elegdad said on ABC's "Issues
and Answers" interview pro
re
"ITU
gram.
"He is a professional killer, he
is killing. I understand this has
become his profession,”
Elegdad said.
Elegdad said the group paid
Agca by depositing money in his
mother's bank account. He said
"$4,000 or $5,000” was found ii.
the account after the 1979
murder of Turkish newspaper
editor Abdi Ipecki.
“There is a correlation
between these large sums of
money and the murderous ac
tions of Mehemet Ali Agca,”
Elegda said, adding that infor
mation in the hands of Turkish
officials indicates Agca
received "several” large
payments through his mother's
account
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