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...still coming, and the fledgling Lebanese government had yet to prove itself able to guarantee order. But the State Department decided anyway that the newly relocated embassy was somehow safe enough, and withdrew the 80-man Marine contingent armed with the heavy weapons that could have stopped the car-terrorist...
...fact, the Marines were withdrawn long before the embassy had been made secure. Officials knew that shatter-resistant windows, reinforced blast walls, earthen berms, and even simple gates were crucial to containing terrorist attacks. But they allowed the embassy personnel to move in before protective devices had been completely installed. Only a few easily negotiated concrete barriers stood between the killer-car and the embassy...
Last week's unrest was not restricted to the black townships. A bomb ripped through the Johannesburg offices of the Department of Internal Affairs, injuring four people. It was the latest in a series of terrorist acts that have afflicted the city since June 15, the eve of the anniversary of the Soweto riots. Two days later another explosion hit an electrical substation 65 miles to the northwest of the city. At almost the same time, police discovered a powerful limpet mine, made of plastic explosives, that had been placed in the building that houses the Rand Supreme Court...
...street near a Tehran railway station was a shambles: blackened cars, shattered glass, women in black chadors weeping as volunteers carried away the wounded. A bomb had exploded during the morning rush hour, killing 18 people and wounding some 300 others. It was the most serious terrorist bombing in Tehran since 1982, when more than 60 people were killed in an explosion at the central telephone and telecommunications center. Two callers to news agencies claimed responsibility for the latest action: the Arya group, a Paris-based collection of exiles who want to restore the Pahlavi monarchy, and a spokesman...
More important, many Western experts doubt whether a terrorist organization could on its own carry out a task as logistically difficult as planting mines along the length of the Red Sea. Says a diplomat in the gulf: "Mine laying is beyond the capabilities of the usual terrorist group. A government has to be involved, but no government is going to take responsibility for this sort of terrorism." Speculation quickly centered on two radical Islamic nations with reasons of their own to disrupt Western shipping and embarrass Egypt: Iran and Libya...