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...Knesset. Mrs. Meir was forced to bargain earnestly with Religious Party and Liberal Party leaders in order to form a governing coalition. In February she had to threaten resignation to keep the warring factions of her own party in line. Meanwhile, the right-wing opposition-led by onetime Irgun Terrorist Menachem Begin-banded together in a menacing bloc known as Likud (union...
...raid was the worst that Israel had suffered since the 1972 massacre at Lod Airport in which three Japanese terrorists killed 27 people and wounded 80. More ominously, it threatened to touch off another violent round of reprisals and counterreprisals in the Middle East. Within 48 hours, in fact, Israeli army units carried out retaliatory raids on six Lebanese villages across the border from Qiryat Shemona. They blew up houses and installations that they claimed had been used by terrorist organizations and took about ten suspected terrorists as prisoners. The Israelis said there were no casualties, but a Lebanese official...
...more inside and outside refugee camps in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan) has been the most intractable of the Middle East disputes. Syria has given strident sympathy to the "liberation" groups that would dismantle Israel as a Jewish state and establish a binational, secular Palestine, and Syria has seldom condemned terrorist actions. Asks Assad: "How could we persuade the dispossessed people they should be content to keep silence and not disturb the world...
Canada's large-scale crackdown cannot, of course, serve as any kind of model for the U.S., nor would most Americans support the abrogation of the traditional American concepts of civil rights. The U.S. has no terrorist groups of any size or popular support like those of Quebec, Argentina and Uruguay. The only way to cope with U.S. terrorist kidnapers may be simply to deal with each case individually and patiently. "Talk, talk, talk and never give in," says Norval Morris, director of the University of Chicago's Center for Studies in Criminal Justice. "Every contact with kidnapers...
Even so, TIME'S Saigon Bureau Chief Gavin Scott last week found that many of the city's inhabitants remain afraid of terrorist raids and further shellings. Public schools were still closed to avoid the tragedy of an artillery shell's hitting a crowded classroom. Last week workmen were installing bulletproof glass in the foyer of the U.S. embassy (even as American Charge d'Affaires Thomas Enders assured the capital's populace that "the enemy is failing"). The Australian and British embassies have sandbagged their front entrances, and half of the city...