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...security-studded 1979 silver-gray Cadillac that was once ordered by the Shah of Iran but never delivered. For $1,500 more, his chauffeur could take a four-day evasive-driving course in Summit Point, W. Va., that teaches high-speed handling and bootleg turns to escape terrorist blockades. The head of an East Coast steel firm spent $150,000 this spring to protect his house with electronic sensors on doors and windows, roof and carpet vibrator detectors and closed-circuit TV cameras...
Rashad al-Shawwa is no radical: he has been the target of terrorist attacks because of his view that Gaza could not function without some kind of cooperation with the occupying Israelis. But at Bir Zeit University, just north of Ramallah in the West Bank, the students' anti-Israeli rhetoric would do credit to a warm-up rally for P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat. Says one 23-year-old student: "We believe in the slogan, 'What has been taken by force must be taken back by force.' Our struggle is part of the universal struggle against imperialism...
...believes "the Arabs should declare peace with Israel and propose normalization." His reasoning: within three to five years, Israel would lose its "siege mentality," thereby leading to a new relationship between Arabs and Jews. But for Mansour al-Shawwa, the advocacy of peace has its hazards. Because of several terrorist attempts on his life, he is now protected at all times by a bodyguard...
...Thatcher's Foreign Minister, Lord Carrington, has been telling him that economic sanctions will do nothing to free the hostages and may help push Tehran into the Soviet orbit. But there was a chance that Carter might still call for a general condemnation by the summit participants of terrorist acts...
...West Bank, the population remained tense following the terrorist attacks on two Palestinian mayors two weeks ago. An Israeli policeman in the Old City of Jerusalem was shot and wounded by a sniper, the first such incident within the Old City in several years. Obstinately, Begin defended the "inalienable right" of Jews to live wherever they wish in the West Bank. He announced that Israel will build ten more settlements in that area, after which it will concentrate on strengthening and enlarging existing settlements. He claimed that Carter had once endorsed such a strategy-an assertion that the State Department...