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Just before the nation's schoolchildren were let out for a five-day holiday to join in the festivities, the resentment turned into outright violence. Sections of railroad were blown up by terrorist bombs outside Johannesburg and Durban. In East London, black nationalist guerrillas lobbed a hand grenade into a police station and raked the building with automatic-rifle fire. Two days later, other saboteurs set off an explosive device at a South African Defense Force recruiting center in Durban...
With Rome's ocher-tinted buildings fairly glowing in the late-afternoon sun, Pope John Paul II, 61, made his way gingerly down the steps of Gemelli Hospital, almost three weeks to the hour after being felled by a terrorist's bullets. He appeared gaunt and a trifle pale, but the sparkle was back...
This is precisely what Madrid politicians fear most. For months there has been talk among the military and right-wing civilians about simultaneously ending both the constant threat of terrorist acts by Basque separatists and the bothersome problems of Spanish democracy a la turca-in the style of the tough Turkish generals who took over their country last fall...
During an airline hijacking, the passengers are usually cowed and careful. But last week, after four young, armed Turks, members of a leftist terrorist group, diverted a Turkish Air Lines DC-9 to Bulgaria and demanded the release of 47 of their comrades in Turkish prisons, the hostages boldly decided to strike back. By the second day, according to the plane's pilot Barlas Akidil, "we had received several signs from the passengers that they were very eager to get rid of the terrorists...
...then suddenly jammed on the brakes. As the two remaining gunmen tumbled in the aisles, Akidil and his co-pilot overpowered one, and a group of passengers swarmed over the other, despite the fact that his desperate shots wounded five of them. One angry passenger finally knocked out the terrorist with a bottle, and Flight 104 was safe again...