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Unrest is on the increase on the Israeli-occupied West Bank, with terrorist incidents leading to arrests and crackdowns. But this, like the diplomatic pressure Israel is facing, only seems to polarize the nation further. At the Wailing Wall last week, the ardently nationalist Gush Emunim held a rally and declared the founding of a new Jewish settlement on the West Bank at Karnei Shomron. The settlement had actually been started in January, but the rally was the Gush Emunim's way of proclaiming that settlement is continuing on the West Bank. Significantly, the Premier's office made...
...heads of all the banks loaning money to Chile saying, "We don't think it's appropriate for banks which are based and chartered through the U.S. to be lending to the Pinochet government at the same time as leading members of his government are implicated in a terrorist murder here." Moffitt added, "We don't believe that there should be lending to governments who the U.S. Congress and a dozen other countries have condemned as the worst of the human rights violators." To pressure the banks, Moffitt has encouraged the initiation of shareholder resolutions by groups around the country...
...universal fear: any innocent traveler or bank customer may suddenly become a hostage. Despite the powerful emotions evoked by the plight of civilian hostages, however, virtually all experts agree that it is better in the long run for a society to refuse to negotiate or to surrender to terrorist demands. Observes Heyward Isham, director of a U.S. Government interagency group set up against terrorism: "A posture of making no concessions to demands may seem coldblooded. But the minute they think they can blackmail you, it leads to an endless chain of demands...
Tough Laws, Tough Penalties. Despite the horrors terrorists have inflicted on Western Europe, the punishment imposed by courts has been surprisingly light. A Rand Corp. study covering the years 1968 to 1976 indicated that terrorists had an almost 80% chance of evading death or imprisonment for their crimes. Stanley Hoffmann, professor of government at Harvard, believes that terrorists have been let off easier because of the "they're all pampered children of the middle class" theory. He is struck by the fact that so many terrorist acts have taken place in West Germany, Italy and Japan, the three defeated...
...totalitarianism left such a scar that postwar laws were purposely soft. Only recently, to meet a full-flood epidemic of terrorism, has any of the three enacted tougher legislation. West Germany tightened its criminal laws to give police broader search and seizure powers. In Italy, under an emergency decree, terrorist prisoners can be held for up to 24 hours without access to legal...