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...Israeli embassy in London's fashionable Kensington district had been warned by intelligence agents to expect some sort of terrorist attack, and particularly to be on the lookout for parcel bombs sent through the mail. But in the rush to distribute incoming mail after the three-day Yom Kippur weekend, no one paid any particular attention to four slim letters that had been airmailed from Amsterdam and hand-addressed to individual embassy staffers. Three of the letters were never opened. But Agricultural Counselor Ami Shachori, 44, nonchalantly ripped open the fourth without even interrupting the conversation he was having...
EUROPEANS last week were only too well aware that they were now in the front lines of a new war of terror between Israelis and Palestinians. Israel's intelligence service warned that Black September-the Arab terrorist group responsible for the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich-planned at least ten new operations in the Middle East and Europe. In Brussels, SHAPE headquarters similarly told Europeans to expect more terror. What could be done about it? Not much; the enemy was within...
...battle continued sporadically for another hour before five guerrillas, including the leader, were killed and three surrendered. In that interval the hostages died too. One group of four burned to death when a terrorist tossed a grenade and set fire to the helicopter in which they were being held. The rest were machine-gunned by the Arabs...
...other hand, more and more countries are becoming tougher in dealing with terrorists. In the past three years, Brazil's military rulers have flown some 130 jailed leftists out of the country in order to free four kidnaped diplomats (one of them an American). Now, Brazilian officials suggest that they will not be so quick to open the prison gates the next time terrorists grab a foreign diplomat. In the wake of Munich, angry Washington officials were saying that "the U.S. view is now close to that of the Israelis." In a flurry of announcements, the Administration promised special...
...edge over its competitors. It had both a staff on the scene and a near monopoly of the transatlantic satellite. Thus it was ironic that ABC, which does not normally air network programs before noon, was the last of the TV networks to broadcast the initial news of the terrorist raid...