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...inept security around our Beirut embassy continues to amaze me. A child would know the solution. Dig a 6-ft. trench across the roadway. Add a drawbridge and keep it open. Any terrorist vehicle without wings would bury itself in he hole and selfdestruct. A day's work should...
...sane individual in the North or South of Ireland believes that it is in Ireland's interest to prostitute herself to the men of the provisional IRA, whose Marxist ideology and links with international terrorism are well known. But nevertheless, it subscribes to the view, especially just after a terrorist attack, that Something Must Be Done. This usually means tinkering about with the constitution, erecting new "forums," adding an "Irish dimension," or initiating what James Prior called "rolling devolution." The Boston Globe said just this: ignore the IRA, but get on with negotiating a "solution." It sounds too obviously reasonable...
...strongest point. He will look even older and frailer when he has to answere for the first time in public, for three Lebanon bombings, his absurd nuclear posture toward the Soviet Union, his inability to assert American influence over anything larger than a golf course, and what amounts to terrorist activity in Nicaragua...
...southwest coast of Ireland, two Irish navy corvettes, the Emer and Aisling, closed in on the 50-ft. vessel, firing four rounds of tracer bullets across its bows. On board, Irish authorities found seven tons of arms. The weaponry was apparently destined for the Irish Republican Army, the terrorist group that seeks to unite British-ruled Northern Ireland with the Irish Republic. Police arrested five men aboard the Marita Anne, including two believed to be I.R. A. members...
...City aboard TWA Flight 842 in the custody of U.S. marshals, who turned him over to armed Italian police at Milan's Malpensa Airport. Then he was flown to Rome and whisked to Rebibbia prison, where he now occupies a cell recently vacated by Ali Agca, the Turkish terrorist who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. With such swift efficiency, the U.S. last week shipped Michele Sindona, 64, home on the day that a new extradition treaty with Italy went into effect...