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...government was determined, Home Secretary William Whitelaw said later, not to allow "terrorist blackmail to succeed." Whitelaw, who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in the early 1970s, was in charge of the government's handling of the crisis from the beginning...
Thus, in a pointed message to Iran's President Abolhassan Banisadr, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher expressed her displeasure over the seizure of the Iranian embassy in London by Iranian Arab terrorists. Obviously she was also indirectly condemning the Tehran government for allowing Iranian militants to hold the American hostages for the past six months. The irony could hardly have been lost on the Iranians, who went to embarrassing lengths in an effort to establish a difference between the two embassy seizures. Touring the Persian Gulf, Iran's Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh said that the seizure...
...recognizes that she is not one of nature's negotiators," says an adviser. Her forte is the daring act. After Lord Mountbatten's assassination last August, for example, she rejected the advice of some cautious Cabinet ministers and visited British troops in the heart of I.R.A. terrorist country in Northern Ireland. Pictures of a windblown Maggie in an oversized flak jacket were visual evidence that she would not give in to the gunmen either...
PRESIDENT CARTER's decision to send an anti-terrorist commando group to free the hostages forcibly--his decision to invade Iran--climaxes a policy that has wilfully ignored American history in Iran and pandered to the worst emotions of the American public in an election year. To be sure, the mission was badly conceived and badly executed, even on a technical military level. If the helicopter had landed successfully in the desert, what would the soldiers have done in confronting a sprawling embassy compound in which the hostages are widely dispersed, and guarded by 150 armed Iranian militants? Harold Brown...
...kibbutz raid was the work of the Arab Liberation Front, an Iraqi-based organization affiliated with the Palestine Liberation Organization. The timing could hardly have been worse for the Palestinian cause, which has lately been gaining support on the diplomatic front while downplaying its terrorist image. P.L.O. officials in Beirut indicated that they had not even been forewarned of the attack...