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...part of a minority in his own country; the Palestinians make up some 65% of Jordan's population of 2.3 million. What is more, the presence of the P.L.O. in Jordan in such close proximity to the West Bank raises the threat that the guerrillas will mount terrorist raids on the Israelis and thus provoke an overwhelming counterattack that could be devastating to Hussein's kingdom...
...P.L.O. in Jordan, told TIME last week that the P.L.O. would "make changes and reorganize itself internally in accordance with the lessons of Lebanon." Just what that meant remained to be seen, but Yahya was more explicit on one key point: he threatened that the P.L.O. would launch terrorist raids against the Israelis. "Jordan," said Yahya forcefully, "is the bridge for the West Bank." Yet if Jordan allows the P.L.O. to mount terrorist raids, the Israelis could be expected to launch exactly the kinds of retaliatory attacks that the government so rightly fears, threatening the King and initiating the same...
...hatred is venomous, relentless and overwhelming. When Armenian Terrorist Levon Ekmekjian was told by Turkish police that his two-man murder squad had succeeded in killing nine people and wounding 72 others, he cried out furiously, "It wasn't enough...
France's inability to protect the Turkish diplomatic community from terrorist attack has outraged the Ankara government. Turkish-French relations were further strained last April by a speech that French Interior Minister Gaston Defferre gave at a ceremony in Marseilles honoring the Armenians who died in 1915. Said Defferre: "The French government recognizes the genocide of which the Armenian people have been victim." The Turkish Foreign Minister protested that Defferre was "contributing to an atmosphere that encourages Armenian violence...
After the bloody Ankara airport assault, ASALA threatened to carry out terrorist attacks in the U.S., France, Britain, Canada, Switzerland and Sweden if Armenian prisoners were not released within seven days. Other extremists would like to see Turkish lands formerly inhabited by Armenians joined to the Soviet Armenian Republic. Such unrealistic demands, made in the name of a lost cause, seem likely to lead to nothing but more violence and vengeance in the future...