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...campuses of the University of Southern California and the University of California at Los Angeles - the committee has erected three concentric rings of eight-foot-high mesh fence. The middle one is wired with intrusion-detection devices, installed by the Pentagon, that sends out an alarm when a potential terrorist (or late-night reveler) approaches. The precautions cover a wide range: nine video-arcade games in Fluor Tower at U.S.C. will be removed to prevent terrorists or pranksters from hot-wiring an explosion...
Last May, when the U.S.S.R. pulled out of the Games, ironically citing inadequate security - and 16 countries followed suit, Olympic planners became more nervous, not less. "It is just a fact of life that terrorist countries are influenced by the Soviets," says Los Angeles County Sheriff Sherman Block. "And if terrorists do make an attack, the Soviets can point to it as a case of 'See, we told...
...newest and, to many Israelis, most disturbing development in their country today is the rise of Jewish violence against Arabs. Twenty-two Israelis are on trial in Jerusalem on a variety of terrorist charges, including
...bombing attack that crippled the Arab mayors of two cities in the occupied West Bank. Three others have already pleaded guilty, and two army officers of the West Bank military government are being tried separately. Israelis have been shocked not only to learn that an underground Jewish terrorist movement exists but by the list of those accused of taking part. Most of the suspects belong to Gush Emunim, the nationalistic religious group that has spearheaded the Jewish settlement movement in the occupied West Bank. Some are reserve paratroopers and tank commanders in the armed forces. One is a rabbi...
...killed the Arab gunmen who murdered eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich? What a bestseller it would make! Simon & Schuster spent $125,000 for the U.S. publishing rights and ordered a 50,000 first printing of Vengeance, subtitled The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team. But even before the book was published a month ago, widespread doubts were raised about its authenticity...