Archbishop Hilarion Capucci, jailed by Israel in 1974 to 13 years in prison for smuggling weapons for Palestinian terrorists but released last November after serving three years following a personal appeal from Pope Paul VI to President Ephraim Katzir of Israel, has left Rome on a Latin American Papal mission to Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico and Argentina.
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