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...occasion, José was assigned to bomb a U.S.-owned store in San Juan. A specialist in burglar alarms carried out the actual breakin. Then an explosives expert brought in two bombs while a heavily armed third terrorist waited in a car pondering some special instructions. "The bomb people were very important to us," José recalls. "So the getaway driver would give his word that he would fight if there was trouble, to give his comrade time to escape...
...Puerto Rico, terrorist activity has been declining, partly because of public aversion to the violence. In last year's gubernatorial election, radical independence parties polled less than 6% of the vote. Buoyed by a U.S.-aided rising standard of living, most Puerto Ricans-despite currently high unemployment-seem to be content with their ties to the mainland; at a conference of island editors and publishers in Dorado last week, Puerto Rico's Governor Carlos Romero Barceló felt confident enough about bedrock pro-U.S. sentiment among Puerto Ricans to call for statehood. Yet the island...
...skyjackers were unusually secretive about their identities. In a brief conversation with an agent of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Cyprus (who said he was trying to persuade the terrorists to surrender), one of the skyjackers called himself Harda Mahmoud. He claimed to be a survivor of the Tal Zaa-tar Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, which had been overrun by Christian forces during the Lebanese civil war. The other male terrorist identified himself as Walter Mohammed. The skyjackers may be members of Min Beirut, a previously unknown Beirut-based guerrilla group that last week claimed responsibility for the skyjacking...
...been deftly buying time in hopes that they could find a way to obtain Schleyer's release without giving in to the kidnapers. One deadline after another has expired as Bonn kept negotiating with the kidnapers through Denis Payot, a Swiss human rights activist who is not a terrorist sympathizer. German officials even went through the motions of asking Algeria, Libya, South Yemen, Iraq, Viet Nam and North Korea not to grant asylum to any of the imprisoned terrorists. All of the countries went along with the Germans...
...search for dramatic stories, German Freelance Reporter Günter Wallraff has masqueraded as a derelict, a mental patient, a napalm-factory worker and a Portuguese terrorist. He once chained himself to an Athens lamppost so that he could investigate justice under the Greek junta. His masquerade worked all too well: he was tortured and then imprisoned for three months. Wallraff s latest and most outrageous pose: a reporter...