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...West and particularly the U.S. The Carter Administration has considered approving the sale to Iraq of engines for gunboats that Baghdad has ordered from France and Italy. The proposed sale has drawn criticism from several Congressmen, on the grounds that Iraq has supported Palestinian guerrillas against Israel, including the terrorist group that last week attacked Israel's Kibbutz Misgav Am (see following story). Beyond that, Administration experts are said to be divided over the question, with some arguing that the U.S. should seize the opportunity to improve ties with Iraq, while others fear that such action could make Washington...
Israeli army units last week moved into southern Lebanon, by now familiar territory to them, in response to a terrorist attack on one of their border settlements. An Israeli assault force probed several miles into the war-torn country with armored personnel carriers, bulldozers and more than 300 troops. The armor quickly fanned out into the six-mile-wide border enclave controlled by Israel's Lebanese Christian Militia allies. Other Israeli units, mostly infantry, moved farther north, along areas patrolled by the 6,000-man United Nations peace-keeping force that has been deployed in southern Lebanon...
...real life, hostage taking, airliner hijackings and political assassinations are all too true to be good; but they make splendid fiction. Indeed, with a big assist from the headlines, the terrorist saga has become one of thriller literature's most prolific genres. This spring has exploded with more than a dozen heist-and-ransom adventures whose plots range from setting the North Sea oilfields afire to capturing U.S. nuclear plants. In one, a team of thugs heists Manhattan, no less; in another, Muslim-backed bullyboys hold Queen Elizabeth II hostage. The authors tend to go in for archetype casting...
...Bourne Identity is the most absorbing of Ludlum's nine novels to date. His characters are complex and credible, his sleight of plot as cunning as any terrorist conspiracy. And his minutiae, from the rituals of Swiss banking to the workings of a damaged brain, are always absorbing. It is a Bourne from which no traveler returns unsatisfied...
...Carlos might have enlisted is Dieter Koenig, a.k.a. Bruno Schilling. Like the real-life Venezuelan terrorist, German-born Bruno is a ferrety connoisseur of chaos: And, like Carlos, Schilling is a vain, insatiable womanizer who has honed boudoir and Beretta skills in North Africa, France and Switzerland. In Paul Henissart's Margin of Error (Simon & Schuster; 334 pages; $10.95), the swaggering former Foreign Legionnaire is assigned to an operation called Grand Slam. Its aim is to assassinate Anwar Sadat and pave the way for a Soviet-managed coup in Cairo. The action takes Bruno, in the footsteps of Cain...