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Since the civil war began in Lebanon 15 months ago, Israel's northern border has been quiet-and Jerusalem intends to keep it that way. The Palestinian guerrillas who once launched sporadic terrorist attacks on Israel border settlements have left "Fatahland" to fight against Christians and Syrians in the north. In effect, the southern half of Lebanon has been left without any government, and its 360,000 Moslem, Christian and Druze inhabitants-mostly poor and scrambling farmers-have been abandoned to fend for themselves. Israel is moving determinedly into the vacuum. TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff last week...
...Israel forgotten her own terrorist-laden past? The Stern Gang and the Irgun were formed to undertake terrorist acts to help establish the state...
...Protestants and Catholics have been killed since January, 1976 is shaping up as the bloodiest year since the violence began seven years ago. The violence in the North has become random. Gunmen burst into pubs and spray customers with automatic-weapons fire, then disappear. Earlier in July, a terrorist shot a pregnant woman, who later gave birth to a child-with a bullet in its back. If there is any "rational" target of the gunmen now, it is the British, who are blamed by both sides for preventing either side from seizing full power in Ulster. The homes of three...
...Dublin, maintain countless hideouts and cross the border with ease. In addition to the assassination, Dublin's continuing dilemma was highlighted this week by an international conference sponsored in the capital by the Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political arm. This was the Anti-Imperialist Festival of terrorist-linked organizations attended by 50 delegations, including one from the Palestine Liberation Organization...
Died. Christopher Ewart-Biggs, 54, twelve days after taking up his post as British Ambassador to Ireland; when a terrorist bomb exploded beneath his car; near Dublin (see THE WORLD...