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...Armed Forces, it was the worst disaster since the end of the Viet Nam War a decade ago. The terrorist attack illustrated in the most grisly fashion possible just how risky it is for the U.S. to venture, not just with its diplomats but with its troops, into a region that has been plagued for centuries by factionalism and hatred. The carnage in Lebanon was virtually certain to produce a political storm as members of Congress and ordinary Americans questioned the wisdom of a policy they do not always understand. For the fractious little country at the eastern...
...that action was the Islamic Jihad Organization, an obscure pro-Iranian group made up of Shi'ite Muslims loyal to Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. On Sunday evening the State Department received an unconfirmed report that a faction calling itself the Islamic Revolutionary Movement had taken responsibility for the terrorist attacks. An unidentified caller had apparently phoned the Beirut office of the French news service Agence France-Presse to say that two of the movement's fighters had died in the suicide attacks...
...countries, partly because it granted asylum to former Iranian President Bani Sadr and other Iranian dissidents, and partly because it sold five sophisticated Super Etendard jets to Iraq. U.S. intelligence analysts note that the Iranians have pressed the Hizbolla, a radical Shi'ite group in Lebanon, to step up terrorist action against French and American targets. "The thing that clinches it for me is that the French got it too," says a senior intelligence official. "The Syrians would have hit only the Americans...
...Pentagon said the death toll from Sunday's terrorist bombing of a U.S. Marine command post rose to 214 as six more bodies were recovered and one man died of injuries in a hospital in West Germany...
...killings, and the brazen release of the videotape, were the most dramatic evidence yet of a grisly new public relations campaign being staged by El Salvador's infamous "death squads." The right-wing terrorist groups have plagued the country since the beginning of El Salvador's guerrilla war in 1979. The recent attacks, how ever, have been aimed at influential targets, such as student leaders, professors and labor officials who are considered sympathetic to the left...