Word: counterterror
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Another senseless round of terror and counterterror shook the Middle East last week. It began last Tuesday morning when salvos of 3.5-in. rockets crashed into buildings that housed offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization in downtown Beirut. The main P.L.O. headquarters for Lebanon, on the wide, busy boulevard called the Corniche Mazraa, was wrecked, as was the P.L.O. research center near the Rue Sadat. The office responsible for coordinating al-Fatah's covert terrorist activities inside Israel narrowly escaped heavy damage when the four rockets that had obviously been aimed at it landed instead on a nearby empty...
Alarmed by a resumption of terrorist raids over the Israeli border, Premier Yitzhak Rabin last week summoned a Cabinet meeting to review counterterror precautions. At the same time, the Palestine Liberation Organization, the political umbrella of the guerrilla movement, acknowledged a serious split in its ranks. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the second largest group in the P.L.O. after Fatah, withdrew from the P.L.O. executive council after bitterly attacking the moderate leadership of Yasser Arafat (see box). Another fedayeen group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -General Command, has also threatened to leave. The P.L.O...
Paramilitary operations are being scaled down. In South Viet Nam, the CIA's role in the "Phoenix"-or counterterror-program has already been phased out. The program used CIA agents to advise the South Vietnamese in the "neutralization," or killing, of Viet Cong officials. Such covert activities are under the CIA'S deputy director of operations, currently William Colby, 53, a former ambassador who was in charge of pacification in Viet Nam from...
...spreading resistance represented no major threat to the Castro regime as yet. But as the opposition began to take organized form, it led Castro, like Batista before him, into the usual dictator's mistake of counterterror. Last week there were reliable reports that a Castro cop, in a moment of rage, killed a 14-year-old involved in the opposition. Just such brutality had mobilized an indifferent Cuban public against Batista; the opposition plainly intended to provoke Castro into the same error...
...together with the French (near Constantine a fortnight ago police found the trussed cadavers of nine Moslem delegates who had agreed to participate with the French in a municipal-reform program). On the other hand, it has driven Algeria's million Frenchmen to a frenzy of resentment and counterterror. Typical were the riots provoked by the assassination in Algiers of Patrol Sergeant Camille le Prial, which last week brought more than a hundred paratroopers smashing through the casbah and resulted in the death of three Moslems, a score injured. Such incidents work to the advantage of the rebels...