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...that the Israeli government has been successful in wiping out the infrastructure of Al-Fatah and other guerrilla groups in the occupied territories. Another is that community leaders-in spite of their sympathy for the Palestinian cause-have by now become more or less resigned to Israeli rule. Thus terrorist efforts in the occupied lands were few and halfhearted. One Arab resistance group considered sprinkling tacks on West Bank roads to slow up Israeli military traffic, but, in the end, even this plot was abandoned as being both futile and too risky...
This became clear last week when two men, describing themselves as members of the Black September terrorist organization, personally delivered a stern warning to Sakharov at his Moscow apartment. The two demanded Sakharov's written opinion of the Middle East conflict and ominously informed him: "We'll report your views back to headquarters, and they'll decide what to do with you." The conversation, Sakharov later recounted to friends, got more tense as time went on. At one point, one of the men "jumped like a tiger" to the telephone, where Mrs. Sakharov was standing, and hastily...
...doubt rightly felt that they were unjustly ensnarled in a blood feud. But Washington officially came down on the side of Israel. President Nixon consoled Kreisky for having to face "a painful decision," then added: "We simply cannot have governments-small or large-give in to international blackmail by terrorist groups...
Arab Blackmail. Israel was concerned not so much with the closing of the Schönau camp as with the fact that the terrorists had extracted the pledge at the point of a gun. If other governments followed suit, Israel would soon be vulnerable to Arab blackmail. The specter arose of governments around the world bowing to the most outrageous terrorist demands, such as refusing landing rights to Israeli jetliners or the cutting off of trade...
...year. Twice this year fedayeen groups set out to attack Schönau Castle in Vienna where the refugees, who travel from Russia to Austria by train, are quartered midway in their exodus. Both times the attackers were spotted beforehand and arrested. Two months ago, another terrorist band killed four innocent travelers at Athens airport when it confused a TWA plane loading for New York with another TWA plane boarding passengers for Israel...