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DIED. Chester Bitterman, 28, Protestant missionary who was kidnaped from the Colombian headquarters of Wycliffe Bible Translators on Jan. 19 by hooded terrorists claiming to represent the Marxist "April 19th Movement"; of gunshot wounds after 48 days in captivity; in Bogota, Colombia. Bitterman, the father of two, was found in a stolen minibus after the evangelical Wycliffe organization rejected a terrorist manifesto accusing it of being a CIA front and demanding that it pull out of the country...
...first the party seemed willing to cooperate. King Juan Carlos had visited the Basque area early this month, and moderate Basques had been outraged at the murder of a nuclear engineer by members of E.T.A., the Basque separatist organization. Then a fortnight ago, a suspected E.T.A. terrorist named José Arregui died in police custody in Madrid. An autopsy showed evidence of torture. The scandal forced the arrests or resignations of several police officials, brought tens of thousands of angry Basques into the streets -and all but ended E.T.A.'s growing isolation among Basque moderates. Under the circumstances...
...fact, eleven defendants were absent. All are members of the Puerto Rican independence group called F.A.L.N. (short for Fuerzas Armadas de Liberation National Puertorriqueña), which specializes in terrorist bombings. Calling themselves prisoners of war, the defendants refused to recognize the authority of the court or take part in the proceedings. (One of the eleven remains a fugitive.) Said Michael Mason, a federal defender who sat quietly in a corner in case legal advice was needed: "Several refused to see me. The ones who would see me wouldn't talk...
...context these phrases make no sense; in context they make even less sense. Maybe, just maybe, the Haigledygook is deliberate. As the Secretary said at his press conference when asked to clarify a statement: "That was consciously ambiguous in the sense that any terrorist government or terrorist movement that is contemplating such actions I think knows clearly what we are speaking of." Well, perhaps they...
Paisley's political theatrics occurred as terrorist attacks were continuing. Following a near fatal Protestant assassination at tempt against Catholic Activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and her husband, and the I.R.A. killings of Protestant No table Sir Norman Stronge and his son, an I.R.A. commando scuttled a British col lier off the coast. At the Maze Prison out side Belfast, meanwhile, I.R.A. prisoners announced another hunger strike to begin March 1, similar to the 53-day protest last year that nearly cost the lives of seven prisoners before it was called...