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...Washington assault was the culminating event of a spate of terrorist acts that have bedeviled the country. It proved again how vulnerable the society is to such attacks. Given the circumstances, it was wondrous that the drama ended with so little blood spilled: one dead and four wounded by gunfire, a dozen others cut and beaten. That the toll was not higher was in part a tribute to the primary tactic U.S. law enforcement officials are now using to thwart terrorists-patience (see box). But most of all, perhaps, it was due to the courageous intervention of three Muslim ambassadors...
...religious conversion. (Shades of Chuck Colson!) Then golf star Gary Player's "recent brush with death" when he was almost struck by lightning on a South African golf course. (Presumably he avoided other unimportant violence in the area, which the space-conscious Enquirer issue fails to mention: like terrorist violence, Soweto riots, and other events irrelevant to our lives.) There are other goodies too: deaths by freezing, psychic phenomena, and this week's cure for cancer...
...youth movement after the war. Now 49, he made contact with younger radicals through Inge Hornischer, a Frankfurt attorney who handled his divorce in 1975. Verfassungsschutz agents, it seemed, regularly tuned in to the telephone of Frau Hornischer, whose radical clientele included Wilfried Böse, a left-wing terrorist killed in the Israeli raid at Entebbe last July...
...seemed like an enterprising piece of reporting: that the Irish Republican Army might have learned how to detonate terrorist bombs in Northern Ireland by remote radio signal. The story added, helpfully enough, that if British army technicians could learn what radio frequencies the I.R.A. used, the bombs could be detonated prematurely...
...most spectacular art museum. Descendants of such modern masters as Braque and Rouault refused to permit their works to be installed there. Louise Nevelson, Robert Motherwell, James Rosenquist and some 40 other American artists, collectors and critics boycotted the place to protest against France's release of Palestinian Terrorist Abu Daoud. Other detractors simply charged that the computerized temple of glass and steel was too expensive (about $200 million). And so, amid all the scandale beloved of the Parisian art world, 3,500 notables were invited to gather this week for the opening of the Georges Pompidou National Center...