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...Turkey's political malaise is the increasing activity of left-wing urban guerrilla groups, many of them composed of students or graduates from the universities. The guerrillas last year carried out a campaign of violence that culminated in the kidnap-murder of Israeli Consul General Ephraim Elrom. Terrorist Leader Mahir Cayan and a cadre of guerrillas from an organization called the Turkish People's Liberation Army were convicted of that crime and were in Istanbul's Maltepe Prison awaiting final sentencing. But they escaped four months ago, kidnaped three NATO radar experts serving at a Black...
...Solution. Unlike the revolts led by such classic guerrillas as Mexico's Emiliano Zapata and Nicaragua's Augusto Sandino in the earlier part of this century, most contemporary terrorist movements are strongly ideological. Their leaders emulate Cuba's late Che Guevara and such flamboyant Guevarists as Brazil's Carlos Marighella, who was killed by Brazilian police in 1969. No Latin American government has yet found a way to deal with its guerrillas effectively except by repression-a strategy that may control the terrorists for a time, but does nothing to solve the root cause of their...
Even in relatively stable Mexico, a dozen or so terrorist organizations spasmodically stage bank holdups and political kidnapings. The government's campaign against the guerrillas was aided by the death of Guerrilla Leader Genaro Vásquez Rojas in an auto accident last February. But another leader, Lucio Cabañas, is still free somewhere in the remote Guerrero mountains. He is believed responsible for kidnaping the son of a wealthy coffee farmer last month...
...strategy, and purposeful tactics of protest. The rush to action--any action--proved irresistible. The result, in Cambridge, was a pair of window-breaking sprees in the Square and a confused strike, centered around grades and exams; in the nation at large, it was a succession of adventurist and terrorist acts...
...doing in La Paz in the first place? Well, some technicians had been giving the Bolivians advice on oil and mining, and one man had been serving as conductor of the national symphony orchestra. But what else? Bolivian officials unmistakably implied that the Russians had also been financing leftist terrorist activity. The matter, said Foreign Minister Mario Gutierrez was "a question of sovereignty...