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...failure to respond to suicide attacks against our troops in Lebanon [Nov. 21] is in sharp contrast to the Israeli reaction, which was to bomb suspected terrorist bases in the Bekaa Valley. It is no surprise that Captain George Tsantes was murdered in Athens. Do terrorists now believe that U.S. citizens can be attacked with impunity...
...uninspiring speaker, Shamir is also less divisive than Begin. He has few intimates outside his family (wife Shulamit, 60; son Yair, 38, an air force pilot, and daughter Gilada, 34). "He is sphinxlike," says Knesset Member Amnon Rubinstein. That befits a man who was a leader of the terrorist underground before Israel's independence and a covert agent and high official of Israel's intelligence agency, MOSSAD. (Even his surname had been a deception; born Jazernicki, he chose the new identity after escaping from a British prison in 1943.) When it comes to Israel's basic security...
Some of the most controversial actions of journalists come when their desire for a good story causes them to collide with an individual's right to privacy. When 239 U.S. servicemen were killed in a terrorist attack in Beirut, the homes of the victims were
...church was staggering down the aisle, fatally wounded, and warning the congregation to take cover. As people dived under the benches, bullets began ripping through the thin wooden walls. When the siege was over, three churchgoers were dead and seven lay wounded. It was one of the more savage terrorist attacks in Northern Ireland's long and bloody history of sectarian violence...
...with the Irish Republic, and opened fire with pistols and automatic rifles. The killers escaped, presumably into the Irish Republic. Cartridges found on the scene link the killings to Dominic ("Mad Dog") McGlinchey, 29, a former member of the Irish Republican Army and still Ireland's most wanted terrorist. As police north and south of the Irish border went on major alert, Roman Catholics braced for a retaliatory attack by Protestant terrorists...