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...late Saturday, the full impact of the events in Beirut was being felt throughout the world. Israel was virtually shut down for celebrations of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. The government was also preoccupied with a new outburst of anti-Jewish terrorist attacks in Brussels and Paris that wounded more than 40 people. As a result, though the government promised to conduct an inquiry, official reaction was slow and confused. A military spokesman claimed that Phalangist forces had broken into the Shatila camp and started a fight, and the Israeli troops had intervened; shots were exchanged between Phalangists...
...streamlined administration, a meritocracy rather than a bureaucracy of patronage, and he intended to have an army strong enough that Syrians or Israelis or U.S. Marines would not have to come into his country regularly. He would guarantee that Lebanon no longer would be a launching pad for terrorist acts against Israel or other neighbors of Lebanon. But he had no time to achieve even a portion of his ambitions, and his death brought a new wave of terror to the stricken country of Lebanon...
...Gelli in Italy if, as expected, he is extradited. They will probably include political and military espionage, illegal possession of state secrets and fraud. Magistrates investigating yet another incident that rocked Italy have reason to suspect that Gelli played a behind-the-scenes role in the explosion of a terrorist bomb in the Bologna railroad station on Aug. 2, 1980. The bomb killed 85 people and injured another...
...Palestinians, the economic inequities might chafe less if the Israeli military occupation were not so humiliating. The Palestinians, in fact, have few civil rights under the Israelis. Although there have been terrorist attacks launched from the West Bank, they usually have come from Jordan or Lebanon. Still, any Palestinian may be detained, imprisoned or deported at any time without charge. Their homes and land may be confiscated, their crops burned. A West Banker suspected of engaging in resistance activities, even throwing a stone at an Israeli vehicle, is liable to have his home destroyed; some 1,500 houses have been...
...union, only a week after a harsh crackdown on tens of thousands of Polish demonstrators took to the streets to commemorate the second anniversary of Solidarity's founding. Said Warsaw's Communist Party daily Trybuna Ludu: "Solidarity extremists are now switching, as proved by numerous facts, to terrorist activities." But the terrorist action was energetically denounced by spokesmen for Solidarity, who disclaimed any connection with the gunmen who had taken over the Bern embassy. Said a union representative: "This is a provocation. Someone is out to discredit...