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Nowhere is the army's continued influence more evident than in the Basque country, where the separatist group ETA is waging a bloody terrorist war. During his 4½ years in office, former Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez resisted military pressure to allow the army into what he and many others viewed as a police problem...
...cover blown. Wulfgar must flee to Paris, where he undergoes plastic surgery. ("I want to be beautiful," he growls). He emerges blond and Aryan, the very stereotypic image of the international terrorist. He and his "ruthless" sidekick Shakka--Persis Khambatta, with more hair and less of a role than when last seen in Star Trck--go to New York. Wulfgar is determined to redeem himself in the eyes of the International Underworld by committing spectacular and death-defving acts of terrorism, with full media coverage. While Wulfgar blows up Wall St., Fox and DaSilva are indoctrinated in "Counterterrorist techniques...
...even as they prayed, a 39-man team of Indonesian commandos were clambering up metal ladders onto the wings of the DC-9. At precisely 2:36 a.m. the plane's doors burst open and the commandos hurtled inside with machine guns blazing. Three of the kneeling terrorists were killed outright. The 44 frightened passengers first ducked behind their seats, then scrambled onto the wings and jumped to safety. A terrorist trying to escape among them was shot dead; another was captured. In nine minutes, the Indonesian military squad had put an end to a three-day hijacking...
...leftist guerrilla group took credit for the embassy strike. "Operation Oscar Arnulfo Romero," it announced, had been mounted to honor the memory of the Archbishop of San Salvador who was assassinated a year ago by a presumed right-wing terrorist. The embassy assault followed a 24-hour truce, also called by the guerrillas to commemorate the prelate's death. The cease-fire was generally observed by government forces, but not by El Salvador's right-wing death squads. The morning after the truce, the bodies of 38 victims were found in and around the capital...
...There is a real danger that a new cycle of hijacking will start up again," warned a French security expert. Said a British foreign relations scholar: "The surrender is bound to encourage other terrorist groups." Concluded the Paris daily Le Monde: "The hijacking and its 'happy' outcome are heavy with menace...