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...motivation for terrorism and violence, that is built into the system. We would support any free, democratic nation in the Middle East, as we support Israel. America has been, and always will be, on the side of nations that prize freedom. The Shiites are simply out to destroy those nations in any way possible for their own fanatical reasons. The Shiites desperately need the publicity and the vigor that hostage-taking provides to gain power, power which has been and would continue to be directed against Americans. The Shiites and those who support them are waging a war against...
...particularly since the Israeli invasion of June 1982, are seeking a fairer shake after generations of neglect and discrimination by Lebanon's wealthier and more powerful Maronite Christians and Sunni Muslims. Beyond all that, the Shi'ite fanatical fringe, inspired by the example of the Iranian revolution, wants to destroy the last vestiges of Western "decadence" in the Islamic world, particularly the presence of the U.S., that "Great Satan." Whether the hijackers of Flight 847 fitted into that category, or were exemplars of a more classical political terrorism, bent on achieving specific ends in the region, was not yet known...
That evening, the terrorists announced that if their demands were not met by the following morning, they would fly to an unspecified destination, and destroy the plane and perhaps its remaining passengers. By early Sunday afternoon, they had made good on only the first half of their ultimatum, arriving in Beirut for the third time. On the ground, the hijackers called for food, fuel, newspapers and videocassettes. They urged the International Committee of the Red Cross to work for the release of the 50 Shi'ites in Israel and "move fast before it is too late so that all will...
...there could also be serious danger in not retaliating. Experts note apprehensively that terrorist attacks, airplane hijackings in particular, tend to come in clusters. A new wave of unpunished terrorism could frighten Arab moderates enough to destroy all prospect of peace negotiations with Israel; that indeed may be the terrorists' aim. Moreover, American lives are already in peril: Brian Jenkins, a Rand Corp. expert, estimates that about a third of all terrorist attacks involve Americans, more than involve the citizens of any other country. Analysts have worried in the past about the U.S.'s acquiring a reputation among terrorists...
...begins sea trials of the U.S.S. Alaska Trident submarine in September, the U.S. will have 14 more than the 1,200 multiwarhead land- and sea-based missiles each side is permitted. To stay within the limit, it must either retire and disable an older 16-missile Poseidon sub or destroy at least 14 Minuteman land missiles. Hard-liners argued against taking either course; they wanted the U.S. to exceed the limit deliberately. Reagan chose a halfway measure: mothballing or converting a Poseidon rather than cutting it up as the treaty requires...