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ers fail to call
on eve of execution
United Press International
VATICAN CITY — The
Vatican said Tuesday Emanuela
Orlandi’s, 15, kidnappers had
failed to make contact with a
church official over a special
“hot line” on the eve of her ex
ecution deadline.
“I am authorized to inform
you that no message was re
ceived during the prescribed
time,” said the Rev. Pierfranco
Pastore, deputy director of the
Vatican press office.
The Vatican issued a state
ment Monday saying Secretary
of State Cardinal Agostino
Casaroli would be available to
speak to the girl’s abductors
Tuesday between 10 a.m. and 11
Pastore said the callers would
use a code number to reach
Casaroli. He said a switchboard
operator would be available to
take any calls after the pre
scribed time, but the call never
came.
The kidnappers demanded
to speak directly to Casaroli to
negotiate the release of Turkish
terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca, who
shot Pope John Paul II on May
13, 1981, in exchange for the
Vatican messenger’s daughter
who disappeared from a Rome
street June 22.
Earlier, Pastore said it was im
possible for the Vatican to meet
the kidnapper’s demands.
Pastore said Pope John Paul
II pardoned Agcajust four days
after the Turk tried to kill him in
St. Peter’s Square — and that
was all the Vatican could do.
“It was a Christian pardon,
readily accorded and never re
voked, by the injured party in
the extremely grave wrong
doing, and it was made public
even before the attacker faced
judgment,” Pastore said.
“All the procedure, from the
investigative phase to the convic
tion and subsequent J
took place and talel
according to the norEal
penal code of the Italicr .. a-
lie,” Pastore said, en Ol' O NO. b
the Vatican has nojurpr"
over Agca’s case.
An Italian court sef
Agca to life imprisoni
July 1981 for the
assassination.
Mario Meneguzzi, i
of t he kidnapped girl,s
day Emanuela's motheil
the verge of a “physt
psychological collapse I
On Monday, an;
caller telephoned tkt|
news agency ANSA i
message: “Emanuelaid
the deadline standsfotlj
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Vatican will serve onlvt
the way in which Aga»i
Italian territory,"saidlli
who police said was a
tainly a “youthful” Ita
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Indonesia, according to the
1980 census in the Southeast
Asian nation, has a population
of 147,490,298 — and 90 per
cent list themselves as Moslems.
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Poland prepares amnesty decree
United Press International
WARSAW, Poland — The
Polish government has pre
pared a wide-ranging amnesty
decree that will free hundreds of
political prisoners within a
month and offer pardons to
most members of the Solidarity
underground, parliamentary
sources said Tuesday.
The amnesty decree, to be
voted into law to accompany the
lifting of martial law later this
week, will give opponents of the
government until Oct. 31 to turn
themselves in, the sources said.
Official sources earlier esti
mated more than 400 people
now in custody would be freed
by the decree. Several dozen
prisoners, possibly more than
100, will be denied amnesty,
however, the sources added.
Top-ranking members of the
Solidarity union and two illegal
dissident groups, the Workers’
Defense Committee and the
Confederation for an Indepen
dent Poland, were expected to
be excluded from the group of
prisoners being freed.
The text of the amnesty de
cree said pardon would be
granted to any activist who has
avoided arrest since military
rule was imposed Dec. 13, 1981,
if he appears before the author
ities “to declare that he would
stop his criminal acts and dis
close the kinds of crimes he has
committed, the time and the
place.”
fronting Solidarity activists as
the regime moves to replace
martial law with a series of new
restrictions, Walesa told UPI in a
telephone interview: “We’ll do
some regrouping. We’ll change
our methods of operation.”
presented to parliament
Wednesday when the more than
450 members of the Sejm assem
ble for a special two-day session
to complete the legislative work
necessary for lifting martial law.
In Gdansk, former Solidarity
chairman Lech Walesa said he
would wait to see the amnesty
decree before commenting on it.
Discussing the situation con-
Poland’s underground prin
ters, who began churning out
hundreds of thousands of illegal
newsletters after the martial law
decree 19 months ago, also were
included in the amnesty condi
tions.
The amnesty decree was to be
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‘biggest coal mine’
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — Occidental
Petroleum’s attempt to build
what is supposed to be the big
gest coal mine in the world in
China is running into problems,
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it was reported Tuesday.
The contract was to have
been signed by July 1, but the
Los Angeles Times reported
that disagreements over market
ing of the coal and difficulties
arranging financing have put
major roadblocks in the path of
the deal.
Occidental, a Los Angeles-
based energy company, signed
an initial agreement with the
Peking government more than a
year ago to develop and operate
a 15-million-ton-a-year coal
mine. The deal was to provide
about $600 million in annual re
venues to Occidental and China.
An interim agreement signed
in March failed to resolve some
of the differences, the newspap
er said, and now Occidental is
having trouble setting up
financing. There is also a dis
pute with the Chinese over how
to market the coal.
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