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...next day, State Department Spokesman William Dyess said that be sides directly arming and training elements of the Palestine Liberation Organization, for which experts say there is abundant evidence, the Soviets have indirectly helped terrorist organizations through surrogates such as Libya and Cuba. But Dyess said Haig actually was using the word terrorism rather loosely to include Soviet support of "national liberation movements" and propaganda advocating "armed struggle," as hi El Salvador and Namibia. All of this can be broadly defined as terrorism, Dyess claimed, be cause it "creates a climate in which terrorism flourishes." Despite Dyess's attempt...
There seems to be no question that the terrorist groups of more than a decade ago, including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Black September movement, depended on the Soviet-allied countries of Syria, Iraq, Libya and South Yemen for training, money and arms. Some also trained in Czechoslovakia and even the Soviet Union. Other groups, such as the Japanese Red Army and Italy's Red Brigades, have more tenuous Soviet links...
Alexander Haig is conducting a terrorist campaign of his own-against the English language. His war of words with the Kremlin has turned into a war on words, presumably much to the consternation of Russian translators. Herewith a lexicon of Haigisms...
...Government thought about whether to honor the agreement with Iran that led to the release of the hostages. What's to consider? Is any deal made with terrorist kidnapers honorable? Iran should get nothing. No money. No concessions. Nothing...
...that stuff either came from the moon or it came through Nicaragua." A State Department task force is trying to determine the extent to which the regime is officially involved in the arms traffic. If it concludes that the Sandinistas abetted the shipments, it will invoke the so-called terrorist clause to cut off aid, which in 1980 amounted to $60 million...