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...ramifications of the invasion however, extend beyond mere mental anxiety for Jewish observers. For as recent terrorist attacks on Jewish civilians in Paris and Rome indicate anti-Israel sentiments--made more widespread and acceptable by recent events--can easily degenerate into violet and irrational anti-Semitism. Even at bastions of enlightenment such as Ivy League universities the Mideast political turmoil has led some critics of Israel to express their views by vandalizing sukkans. Fortunately the vast majority of observers have condemned such wanton destruction as a base and vicious way of making a political statement...
...Army, claimed responsibility for the attack. The next day James Molyneaux, leader of the Protestant Official Unionist Party, fled his headquarters in downtown Belfast minutes before a bomb planted by the INLA exploded. On the morning of the elections, Molyneaux barely avoided a fire bomb left by the same terrorist group on the windowsill of the house in which he was staying...
...Brando had used his a few years before; to air for political sympathies with an approved and homeless people. When Brando refused his best actor award, he did so in support of the American Indians. When Redgrave got up to accept her statuette, she voiced her support for a terrorist organization, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and attacked "Zionist hooligans" for probating her appearance peacefully outside the auditorium...
...that a hand rose from a sea of smiling faces in St. Peter's Square and fired several shots at Pope John Paul II. After a quick trial by Italian authorities, Mehmet Ali Agca, 23, a self-described "international terrorist," disappeared behind bars to serve a life sentence, leaving a stream of questions unanswered: Who was he? Why had he done it? Had he acted alone or on someone else's orders? In an hourlong special report that will be broadcast this week, an NBC News team headed by Correspondent Marvin Kalb follows the trail of suspicion...
...report traces Agca's terrorist roots back to his native Turkey, where he had rubbed shoulders with extremists of both right and left. In July 1979 Agca pleaded guilty to the murder of moderate Turkish Journalist Abdi Ipekci; he escaped from prison five months later. In July 1980 Agca appeared in Sofia, Bulgaria. According to NBC, he spent seven weeks in the best hotels there, received a counterfeit Turkish passport and mingled with members of the Turkish Mafia, which has long run a thriving drugs-for-guns trade with the cooperation of Bulgaria's hard-line Communist regime...