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...third-year Harvard Law School student recently back from the South African territory of Namibia, said yesterday the South African anti-terrorist law "is so broad that practically any activity can lead to conviction," and that it is "a matter of administrative discretion to decide whom to charge and whom...
...first dozen victims were dispatched with silencer pistols or blasted in their hotel rooms or cars with plastique explosives. One of the hit team's victims turned out to be a coordinator of activities among Black September, the I.R.A. and Basque separatists. His replacement: the mysterious terrorist known as "Carlos," who in 1975 engineered the kidnaping of representatives of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. The book provides the factual grist for a gross of paperback thrillers...
Given some commonplace materials, a simple lab and a certain amount of fissionable uranium or plutonium, almost any competent physicist can build an atom bomb nowadays. This unfortunate fact of technological life has stirred dire warnings that sophisticated terrorist groups might build such bombs and use them to blackmail the world -a kind of ultimate crime. While the prospect causes a great deal of official worry, it also provides almost any competent thriller writer with a readymade plot that has everything: timeliness, tremendous stakes and, above all, the appalling specter of a mushroom cloud billowing over a peaceful land...
...terrorist act was "a symbol of more liberalism in Spain, since legally it would never have been allowed," he says. "It was an illegal act, although usually the government does not prosecute right-wing terrorists," he added...
...nations justify torture? The most common argument is that the practice is an unfortunate but indispensable means of combatting lawless elements that threaten the security of the state, especially terrorist extremists. The argument draws some support from the reckless brutality of recent terrorist movements and from the massive Communist threat-at least as it is perceived in many countries. "Nobody wants to be called a torturer," says one senior Argentine officer. "The word stinks of cowardice. But nobody ever gave away important information because a gentleman came up to him and said: 'Please tell me what you know...