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...shocked by the explosions in England and, as a Briton and naturalized U.S. citizen, object strongly to American involvement in these I.R.A. terrorist attacks on the innocent. It is common knowledge that arms and financial aid to the I.R.A. are sent by Americans, and with an ease that smacks of turning a blind...
Responsibility for three of the minor attacks was claimed by Direct Action, a small group of anarchists. No one assumed the responsibility for the shooting at Goldenberg's, but police suspect it was the work of Black June, a dissident Palestinian group. Yet the escalation of terrorist attacks in France is not limited to anti-Jewish violence. Two days after the Goldenberg's massacre, two bombs, one on the Champs-Elysées and one at the Iraqi embassy, injured six people. Since May, terrorist attacks of all kinds in Paris have killed 20 and wounded...
Given last week's vicious attack and the recent increase in terrorist incidents, the Mitterrand government has begun to reconsider its lenient policies. Gaston Defferre, Minister of the Interior, has called for a redefinition of the right to political asylum, and the French Cabinet is scheduled to produce a report this week on improving internal security. It will not appear a moment too soon for Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac. Says he: "Paris has become a hunting ground...
...about Lebanese casualties as it would have us believe, why then does Yasser Arafat insist on hiding his troops in the midst of innocent Lebanese civilians? In doing so, Arafat knowingly puts these people in jeopardy and shows that he is willing to sacrifice them to carry out his terrorist activities...
...different kind of war hit the capital. A bomb exploded inside the Ministry of Planning, killing an unknown number of people and wounding scores. It was a professional job: the explosives gutted all six stories of the building. The government has played down the explosion, but such a terrorist strike in a city preparing to welcome the summit of nonaligned nations in September does not augur well for security. It also underlines the view of my friend, the Basra merchant, that the Shi'ites may not be as loyal to the Saddam government as we are told. There...