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...American relations. For too long, the President and his advisers think, the U.S. has quietly accepted an unrealistic notion of detente that has permitted the Soviet Union to behave aggressively throughout much of the world. The Administration is particularly disturbed by mounting indications that the Soviet Union is behind terrorist activity that is intended to destabilize Western nations and their allies in the Third World. State Department Spokesman William Dyess provided specifics: Soviet aid to the Palestine Liberation Organization, the use of Cuba and Libya as conduits to aid terrorists, inflammatory Soviet broadcasts to Iran reviling the U.S. Said Dyess...
...should be noted that US intelligence has kept informed of the plans and capabilities of the paramilitary strike force in Guatemala. US intelligence has been in contact with Nicaraguan exile groups in Guatemala and in Miami and it is aware of their relationship with Cuban exile terrorist groups operating in the US. Charges that CIA has been promoting and encouraging these organizations have not been substantiated. However no attempt has been made to restrict their mobility in and out of the US or to interfere with their activities. Their mobility and their links with the US--it seems reasonable...
...already hounded by discontent on all sides as Italy once again descended into a trough of multiple troubles. In southern Italy, 200,000 people shivered in the quake-stricken mountains, their suffering compounded by a corrupt, discredited bureaucracy. A high-ranking judge remained in the hands of his terrorist kidnapers. A Cabinet officer had resigned in a spreading oil-tax scandal which may involve $2.2 billion. The national mood, and respect for political authority, was probably at its lowest point since former Prime Minister Aldo Moro was kidnaped and murdered by the Red Brigades in 1978. A published opinion poll...
...close call. Last week one of the seven strikers, Sean McKenna, 26, sentenced to 25 years for terrorist offenses including the attempted murders of a policeman and a Protestant civilian, was reported to be going blind from lack of food. He was described as comatose and close to death; a visiting relative said he looked like a "yellow skeleton." Amid warnings that McKenna had only 24 hours to live, prison authorities brought in a priest to give him the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church. After the strike was called off, the fear remained that he might still...
...books after black nationalists took over the government of newly independent Zimbabwe last April. (The law was repealed only after the Tekere trial began.) At the advice of their Gibraltar-born white lawyer, Nick McNally, the defendants claimed that they were only trying to protect government officials from a "terrorist" plot on their lives...