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...celebrated North Carolina race--which some say will overshadow the Presidential race in rhetoric if not reality--pits the scourge of right wing conservatism, Sen. Jesse Helms, against Democratic Gov. James B. Hunt, Jr. Polls taken late last year put the popular Hunt-progressive in Southern terms--ahead of Helms by as much as 20 points, though more recent polls show that Helms has closed...
Half an hour after the attack, a Milan radio station received an anonymous phone call. "This is the Fighting Communist Party," said a man with a thick Roman accent. "We must claim the attempt on General Hunt, the guarantor of the Camp David agreements...
Dozier's rescue and a series of arrests of key Red Brigades leaders had led many Italians to hope that the group had been neutralized. Instead, it seems that terrorism may be once again on the rise in Italy. Shortly before Hunt's assassination, a repentant Red Brigades leader warned on national television that the organization is "alive and they will strike in Rome." On the day of the Hunt killing, Prime Minister Bettino Craxi sent a report to parliament on the growing danger of resurgent terrorism in Italy linked to the turmoil in the Middle East...
...investigators pored over the sparse evidence in the Hunt case, it was beginning to appear that a Middle East connection was involved. Hunt, a civilian, was head of the 2,600-man contingent patrolling the Sinai under the terms of the 1978 Camp David agreements. A retired foreign-service officer, he was not among the highest-ranking Americans in Italy, but Middle East duties would have made him a prime target for extremists from the region. Authorities are most alarmed over the possibility that some of the estimated 300 Italian terrorists known to be at large may have allied themselves...
...Hunt's killing was the latest in a series of assassinations in which Middle East involvement has been suggested...