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...issued last year, bringing the total to a remarkable 1.25 million. In the northern reaches of the country, near the Rhodesian border, white farmers are also equipping themselves with walkie-talkie radios. To the east, along the Mozambican frontier, others are clearing the bush and attempting to guard against terrorist infiltration...
...Successor. Likud, a union of hawkish groups that insists on retaining the occupied territories, is led by a right-wing former Irgun terrorist, Menachem Begin. Hospitalized last month by a heart attack, Begin, 63, will miss the campaigning. Ironically, many voters who detest Begin might be drawn to Likud if he were to resign as the leader. But since he has no logical successor, the coalition could fall apart...
...investigation focused on members of the New York office's Squad 47, which was assigned to investigate radical groups, and is alleged to have regularly pilfered letters from relatives and friends of suspected terrorist fugitives. The indictment charges that in carrying out "the mail run," as the agents came to call it, they used illegally obtained mailbox keys and opened the letters at FBI headquarters in Manhattan with a "steamer"-a device that allows resealing without evidence of tampering. Agents also tapped phones of numerous eavesdropping targets without obtaining required court permission. Despite those efforts, they failed to turn...
...other hand, plutonium, even in tiny quantities, is searingly radioactive and ranks with botulin toxin as one of the world's most poisonous substances. Moreover, with as little as 12 Ibs. of plutonium, the right equipment and expertise in handling the stuff, almost any government-or terrorist outfit-could make a nuclear bomb...
...When I acted in France, I played romantic roles and comedy. But here in the U.S., I am the mean lady," says Swiss-born Actress Marthe Keller, 30. Mean is perhaps not quite the word for her roles as a double agent in Marathon Man and as a Palestinian terrorist in Black Sunday. "I couldn't connect with that part, it was so violent," she says. "I played it cold, without emotion, like I would do Lady Macbeth." Her next appearance will be in Bobby Deerfield with her real-life love Al Pacino. She is also signed to play...