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Summary:Benjamin Mendoza, a Bolivian who lunged at the Pope with a knife when the Pontiff visited the Philippines in 1970, was sentenced to 50 months' imprisonment by a Manila court on April 20 1971.
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Location:PHILIPPINES
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