Was Moscow involved?
It was on May 13,1981, that a hand rose from a sea of smiling faces in St. Peter's Square and fired several shots at Pope John Paul II. After a quick trial by Italian authorities, Mehmet Ali Agca, 23, a self-described "international terrorist," disappeared behind bars to serve a life sentence, leaving a stream of questions unanswered: Who was he? Why had he done it? Had he acted alone or on someone else's orders? In an hourlong special report that will be broadcast this week, an NBC News team headed by Correspondent Marvin Kalb follows the...
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