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...obscene; still, it obeys its own rules of tactics and strategy. Organized crime kills, yet it has a penetrable logic of venality and revenge. But contemporary "senseless violence" is opaque. No one can accurately fathom the mind of the deranged, no screen exists to separate the terrorist and his target...
...Japan, madam," was the reply, "and I am very excited about my trip to the Holy Land." The woman answered: "I hope you have a pleasant stay." Minutes later, both were dead, along with 24 others, and 78 persons were wounded in one of the most callous and grotesque terrorist attacks in the Middle East's tortured history...
...proconsul in Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw, persuaded four prominent Catholics to join an eleven-man advisory commission. Earlier in the week, he received a delegation of women from a Derry ghetto. They were the first delegation of Catholics to meet with the govern ment since the British began interning terrorist suspects without trial last August. The biggest issue preventing a Catholic reconciliation with the govern ment is internment, even though Whitelaw has released 377 of the 929 men originally held in prison camps. Last week Gerry Fitt, leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party, accused the Proves of trying...
...bombing the Army headquarters in Frankfurt. The explosion, they said in a message to the press, was intended as a protest against the Army's "extermination strategies in Viet Nam." Anarchist groups known to sympathize with the Baader-Meinhof gang claimed credit for three of the other terrorist acts. Though nobody has yet declared himself responsible for the attack on the justice's wife, it so happens that her husband had been directing an investigation of the gang. Moreover, police revealed that all the bombs had been made from pieces of heavy steel pipe stuffed with explosives-precisely...
American advisers in Saigon reported that nearly 250,000 refugees from Quang Tri were trying to get to Hue and eventually Da Nang, which, according to American intelligence sources, faces Viet Cong terrorist attacks...