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Lebanon, 1978, 1982, 1983. Again, it is clearly the Israelis' fault. PLO terrorists should have every right in the world to lob mortars, and to stage periodic terrorist runs into the Jewish state. What right does Israel have to invade Lebanon to attempt to halt the waves of mansacal murders? The PLO should be alloweed to blow up any military targets in wants to--especially public buses, marketplaces, passenger planes, Olympic teams, nursery schools...
Police brutality against Blacks in America is a continuing legacy of what, until recently, was perhaps the most grotesque aspect of Black life in America: the fact that one's life could at any time be snuffled out at the whim of a white police officer, or some terrorist from the Klan, or a bunch of people who might, just for the hell of it, decide to decorate their trees and telephone poles with Black bodies. This went on everywhere, not just in the South...
Rather than affecting world events, Reagan and Andropov act like two reactionary constants. My proposal for Man of the Year: the terrorist. Beside him, the heads of the two most powerful nations on earth look like frustrated policemen, powerless to stop violence...
...least five ideologically diverse groups promptly claimed "credit" for the bombings. From one of these groups re-emerged the Venezuelan terrorist Illitch Ramirez-Sánchez, better known as the infamous and long-sought "Carlos," who in 1982 masterminded a previous French train bombing. His Organization of Armed Arab Struggle announced in several phone calls to the press that the bombings were in response to last November's air raids on Shi'ite Muslim barracks in the ancient Lebanese city of Baalbek. At least 39 people died in those raids. But it is also possible that the most...
...commission discovered that the Marines assigned to guard embassy personnel after that bombing operated under less restrictive rules of engagement than did the Marines at the airport headquarters. This led the airport sentries to believe that "the terrorist threat confronting them was somehow less dangerous than that which prevailed at the embassy...