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...Bogside gasworks (Any regrets for the shootings? "Certainly not," he would snap), has also been arrested. Other captured leaders include a strategist who used to explain, coolly and lucidly, the lessons in terror that the I.R.A. had learned from the guerrillas of Palestine and Cyprus. Undoubtedly, other terrorist movements will now study I.R.A. tactics...
...Philippines' last frontier. Unaccustomed to the concept of title deeds for land, Moslem peasants were gradually pushed off the best rice fields. Starting in 1969, when the Moslems suddenly found them selves outnumbered by Christians in territory they regarded as their own, they began to fight back with terrorist gangs called Barracudas and Blackshirts. The Christians retaliated with their own gangs, known as llagas (rats...
...high noon, two men in leather jackets climbed over the wall enclosing the compound, while two others, well-dressed in dark suits, strolled in through the front gate. Before the guard could raise any alarm, he was staring down the muzzles of submachine guns. The Black September Arab terrorist group, perpetrators of the Munich massacre (TIME, Sept. 18), had struck again...
Most dramatic live moments: the tragic terrorist raid at the Munich Olympics, which erupted during ABC's impressive running coverage of the sports events...
...moved to Ireland to devote his life to the I.R.A. In 1969, when the organization split apart over how to conduct its campaign against British rule of Northern Ireland, MacStiofáin became leader of the Provisional wing, which has been responsible for most of the subsequent bombings and terrorist shootings in the North. Until his arrest last week, his leadership remained unchallenged. During a temporary truce last June, the British government brought him to London as head of an I.R.A. negotiating team, but violence broke out again in Ulster a few days later. British officials consider MacStiof...