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...were the work of a Manson-style gang, some residents of Barrington Hills were even said to have started carrying shotguns to cocktail parties. Last week the gang theory gained some credence. Chicago police announced that they had arrested nine black youths who are members of a little-known terrorist group that calls itself...
Fitful. Though he made his move within hours after his Defense Secretary escaped from what was purported to be a terrorist assassination attempt, Marcos had in fact planned to assume emergency powers well before the attempt was made. In doing so, he may or may not have exaggerated the potency of the New People's Army, a Maoist revolutionary movement blamed for several suspicious bombings in the Manila area. Certainly, his act hardly suggests that he has given up his admitted desire to stay in power after the end of 1973, when he is due to step down-unless...
Rogers offered a high-priority draft treaty outlining specific anti-terror measures and called for a convention next year to act on them. The treaty would provide for automatic extradition or prosecution of terrorists and sanctions against any nation that allows them training facilities or sanctuary. Rogers underscored his arguments with a grim roll call of terrorist acts this year alone. They include...
Washington has no illusion that such an agreement can be easily reached, and it is pressuring individual nations bilaterally. Many European countries, however, are hesitant about offending oil-producing Arab states, and African diplomats point out that one side's "terrorist" might be another's "freedom fighter...
Aquino, whom Marcos has accused of collaborating with the N.P.A., had backed a Manila rally-held the day before the crackdown-at which 30,000 Filipinos protested that the Marcos regime would use terrorist violence as an excuse to employ emergency powers to silence the opposition...