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First in line to be presented to Archbishop Foley in St Mary's Cathedral last Sunday was Sandra Calvezzi of Balcatta accompanied by her sponsors Vera Mammoliti and Denise Oates and who is one of three unbaptised catechumens and three baptised candidates who will enter the Church this Easter at Balcatta. • More pictures and words on Pages 3 and 15
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Defector breaks his silence after 10 years
WASHINGTON: A KGB defector has claimed that former KGB chief Yuri Andropov made plans in 1979 to assassinate Pope John Paul, but the Vatican is maintaining its silence about any such suggestions.
Former KGB officer Victor Sheymov who defected to the USA in 1980 says he has broken his 10 year silence on the matter because "no secret lasts forever" and to contribute to discussions of Soviet-American affairs. Sheymov says in was in a KGB general's office in Warsaw in 1979 when an aide brought in a cabled request from Andropov for "all possible information on how to get close to the pope."
Sheymov told reporters "there is only one Agca, who was captured by Italian police and reason I know to get physically close to sentenced to life imprisonment in Italy, implicated some Bulgarians in the conspiracy somebody and that's to assassinate him". but changed his story several times. When Mehmet Ali Agca wounded the pope Italian investigators sought to try three in St. Peter's Square in 1981, Sheymov said, "it Bulgarians as co-conspirators but eventually had was absolutely clear to me" that the to drop the charges for lack of evidence. Some assassination plan was initiated by the KGB. leading experts in international espionage and Sheymov stressed that he had no information terrorism argued that the operation was directed about "the time, state, place or how" an by Andropov through the Bulgarian secret assassination might be attempted, so his police. information had very limited value for any Sheymov said he considers that scenario "very possible efforts to prevent an attack. "I only knew likely," about the plot at its inception," he said. "The Bulgarian Secret Service was often used Following his 1981 assassination attempt, by the KGB for questionable operations," he said.
School policies get thumbs up The chairman of the National Catholic Education Commission has welcomed both the coalition's schools policy and the future proposals funding announced by the Minister for Employment Education and training.
the phase-in period of the Coalition's schools policy, non-government schools will receive recurrent funding at a level not less than that prothe posed by Government. Mr Gleeson also welcomed Mr Peacock's Mr Gerry Gleeson, wel- promise of an extra $10m comed Mr Peacock's in capital funds in each guarantee that, during of the years 1991-1993.
The removal of restrictions which currently apply to the use of capital funds was also noted. Mr Gleeson said it was pleasing that both major parties have recognised the need for financial security and stability for Catholic schools. Mr Gleeson said that in responding to the 1989
Paper the Commission requested that future funding policies take account of the following principles:— • the need for stability and security of funding, • the need to maintain steady real increases in the period 1992-2000,
• retention of the twelve category system,
principles in his policy statement.
• the need to increase capital wants, • retention of the community standard for the period 1992-1996 but having it reviewed and updated for 1997-2000.
Mr Gleeson said that the Commission had sought larger increases in both recurrent and capital than those granted, but it recognises that there was a difficult economic climate.
• priority be given to
The Minister has recognised and accepted these
The Commission will be making detailed sub-
Discussion
needy schools,
missions to both the Community Standard Review and the Capital Needs Review to demonstrate the difficulties being experienced by all n on -Government schools.
• Parents and friends disagree — See Page 3.