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Though peace is the traditional hope of the New Year, prospects for 1975 are not encouraging. Across four continents there are battlefields on which blood is being shed because of rebel movements, border disputes, terrorist action and full-scale national conflicts. The new year is likely to be bloodier than the old. Among the most serious trouble spots...
...will be late spring, when the weather is right for military operations, and the mandates expire for the U.N. buffer forces now stationed in the Sinai and on the Golan Heights. Short of war, both the Israelis and the Palestine Liberation Organization are expected to continue their cross-border terrorist and commando raids...
...Terrorist Bomb. The Israelis were back attacking Lebanon last week, this time destroying houses in the village of Majdal al Zoun and taking Lebanese prisoners back to Israel with them. Hours later, the fedayeen retaliated by staging a rocket and grenade attack on an Israeli border kibbutz in eastern Galilee. At week's end, a terrorist bomb exploded in a police car in downtown Jerusalem, wounding 13 people...
...argue that the presence of American troops would undermine Israel's sovereignty and reduce it to a client state, always living in fear that the troops would be withdrawn if Washington objected to Jerusalem's policies. Israelis also note that U.S. units would be powerless to prevent terrorist attacks...
...Dublin, the government proposed a new criminal-law bill that, amazingly enough, provides for trial in Ireland of any person charged with terrorist offenses in Ulster or elsewhere in the United Kingdom. The bill is chiefly designed to discourage the I.R.A. from using the republic as a secure haven for its attacks on the North...