Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incidentally, those founders -- David Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann -- detested the Stern Gang that was implicated in terrorist bombings and assassinations. Shamir was one of its most notorious members. If Israel refuses to budge on the West Bank, it could, over time, become just another Levantine war zone pretending to be a country, in which latter-day equivalents of the Stern Gang battle with the most extremist of the Palestinians...
Violence has become a fact of Peruvian life. Government studies count 12,965 people dead in terrorist-related violence since 1980, when Sendero Luminoso began its campaign to overthrow the government. Already this year, 794 killings have been tallied, though the actual number is no doubt much higher. Outside the major cities, hundreds of police officers and mayors have deserted their posts after receiving death threats from terrorists. In the area around Huancayo, the capital of Peru's breadbasket department of Junin, Sendero Luminoso is locked in a battle for dominance with the Cuban-oriented M.R.T.A. rebels. The city, says...
Just what do governments owe the traveling public by way of warnings against possible terrorist attacks? A lot, say families of the victims killed when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown out of the sky over Scotland by a bomb on the night of Dec. 21. In the wake of new disclosures last week suggesting that authorities on both sides of the Atlantic had received several detailed and credible | alerts of a terrorist threat, many relatives want to know exactly what American and British transport officials knew -- and when they knew it. And then they want to know why nothing...
Controversy over the ill-fated flight revived when London's Daily Mail obtained a memo from the British Ministry of Transport dated Dec. 19. The alert warned British airlines and airports and some foreign carriers of a new type of terrorist bomb, packed with the Czechoslovak-made explosive Semtex, that could be hidden in a radio-cassette player. The memo contained an elaborate list of clues for detecting such devices, including the failure of the cassette player to function normally and more wiring than usual for a portable player. "Its sophistication, and the effort taken to conceal it," said...
Despite the accusations of irresponsibility involved in this particular case, the larger question remains unanswered. As the FAA noted in December, it and the airlines constantly receive terrorist threats. To publish them all would effectively halt air travel and give the terrorists an unprecedented victory...