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Of providence and policy: three assassination attempts failed, and an evil empire fell.(HISTORY)
DID the attempted assassinations of John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher change history? Were these leaders spared by God for the great purpose of bringing about the largely peaceful collapse of the Soviet Union? Did God's hand, as John Paul believed, "guide" the bullets and the bomb those crucial inches and feet from their targets? And did the failed assassinations rebound on their perpetrators?
Just as the scientist seeking truths of nature must examine only natural phenomena, so the historian seeking truths about the human past has to limit himself to investigating human actions. Miracles are beyond his professional capacity. But what the ...
- Second motive. (Pope John Paul II wants to visit Soviet Union)
- Magazine article from: National Review July 31, 1987 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Loren Jenkins July 11, 1987 700+ words
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- Pope aided Soviet Union's fall, book says
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times STEPHEN ROBINSON September 14, 1996 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Loren Jenkins May 5, 1988 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Victor L. Simpson October 16, 1988 700+ words
...appeared to suffer a setback when John Paul was wounded by a Turkish gunman...shooting was inspired by the Soviet Union to halt John Paul's support for the independent...Mikhail S. Gorbachev leading the Soviet Union, relations between the Soviet...