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When gunfire ripped through downtown Belfast last week, office workers on their lunch break responded with weary resignation, learned from years of living dangerously. For twelve days Irish Republican Army terrorists had gone on a shooting spree, gunning down five people. By the grim rules of Northern Ireland's religious warfare, it was time for militant Protestants to strike back. Still, when the counterattack came, it proved to be more than the usual random raid against Roman Catholics. This time the Protestants' target was Gerry Adams, 35, president of Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political...
...shooting binge and the Protestant counterattack all but overshadowed a guardedly optimistic report, released last week by Ulster's chief constable, showing that terrorist incidents in 1983 had dropped to the lowest point since 1970. Events in Ulster also threatened to set back the efforts of Irish Prime Minister Garret Fitz-Gerald to gain support for a power-sharing scheme that would give Britain and Ireland joint responsibility for the troubled region. On a state visit to Washington last week, the Irish leader urged Americans not to make "common cause for any purpose, however speciously well meaning, with people...
...last century. When a female voice comes on the monitor, sending out an SOS and requesting permission to land, Max becomes really excited--a real live woman. Without asking the boss for permission. Max allows the damaged spaceship to dock. As it turns out, three convicted murderers and political terrorists who have killed all the crew members are flying the damaged ship: An enormous macho brute named Mendaz; a cunning German political terrorist named Gunther; and their beautiful female companion, Maggic, over whom they both fight...
...Vietnam vet turned prominent international lawyer, is called by a friend from the past. The friend tells him of a sinister plot by retired but fanatical and influential generals to take over the world. They've got money, brains and connections everywhere. And they've been shipping guns to terrorist groups all over the world, and moreover they are planning a series of assassinations and uprisings which will soon catapult the military into power. Converse is cynical, after all he's got his cozy lawyer's world and it does sound like a paranoid's fantasy, but then the friend...
...threat of Jewish-Arab violence as reason to pursue one of his country's most inflammatory policies, the settlement of Israelis in the West Bank. In a radio interview, Minister Without Portfolio Ariel Sharon raised the hypothetical possibility of Israeli military retaliation against West Bank towns for Arab terrorist acts, unless Jewish settlers are moved into every Arab community. Said Sharon: "If [the West Bank city of] Nablus will be a place which is a center of terror, and Jews won't enter it, it is reasonable to assume that the day may come when Israel will have...