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...fail to make a clear distinction between the P.L.O. and the Palestinians. For years, the P.L.O. has operated from heavily populated areas. Yasser Arafat knew that an Israeli counterattack would result in heavy civilian losses. The security of his terrorist organization was and still is more important to him than the safety of people he claims to be defending. Michael Maya Oak Ridge, Tenn...
...defending champion by virtue of beating The Netherlands in the 1978 final on its home ground in Buenos Aires, had decided to come despite the Falklands war. Great Britain's three doughty qualifiers-England, Scotland and Northern Ireland-had appeared after similar rumbles to the contrary. The Basque terrorist organization, ETA, although promising its own fans the usual number of bombings and kidnapings for an event of this magnitude, in fact had only managed to frighten the residents of Bilbao with a few misplaced charges...
...Begin's departure for the U.S. last week, his seven-member Cabinet committee presented Habib with a communiqué titled "A Basic Proposal Regarding the Arrangements for the Future." Among other things, it called for an Israeli-Lebanese peace treaty, an end to the use of Lebanon as a terrorist base, Lebanese government responsibility for demilitarization and related agreements, the removal of all foreign forces from Lebanese soil, and a 25-mile-wide buffer zone on Israel's northern border to be policed by some form of international peacekeeping force...
...Office of Naval Intelligence, running networks of foreign agents and helping set up covert operations. When he left Government service, he teamed up with another onetime spook, Frank Terpil, and he is now charged with spinning his contacts and skills into a worldwide web of illegal arms deals and terrorist activities, chiefly for the regime of Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Sought by Washington since 1980, Wilson took refuge in a seaside villa in Tripoli, beyond the reach of frustrated U.S. authorities. But last week he got careless, and federal agents managed to ensnare him in an ingenious trap...
...Army bases near Frankfurt. Two others damaged the Düsseldorf offices of U.S. computer firms, IBM and Control Data Corp. Then came a blast at the German-American Institute in Tübingen. In a letter to the West German press, the Revolutionary Cells, a leftist terrorist group, announced that the explosions were a mere foretaste of what President Ronald Reagan can expect when he arrives in West Germany this week. Said the letter: "This is the start of a noisy, eventful and unforgettable reception...