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Habash is shrewdly sensitive to popular opinion. Thus, because the P.F.L.P. has been widely censured for blowing up commercial jets, Habash indicated that hijackings will cease. "We are not a terrorist party," he said. "We are revolutionaries. We will not practice terror but revolutionary violence, taking as targets things that the common man will understand." Last week, as if to underscore his point, a section of the 1,068-mile Tapline, which carries Saudi Arabian oil to the Mediterranean, was mysteriously blown...
...Battle of the Diamond" in County Armagh in 1795, Protestant peasants beat up Catholic workers and later that evening founded the Grand Orange Lodge of Ulster. Other Orange lodges soon proliferated and sent howling mobs of Protestants out to brutalize the Catholics. Eventually, the Irish Catholics started terrorist groups of their...
Senseless Episode. What stirred the Israelis to these measures was not only the persistence of terrorist activities, but also a particularly senseless episode of violence that occurred early in the year (see box). The Arabs of Gaza, however, reacted bitterly to the mass punishment that was meted out. Their mood now, as a result, is a mixture of fright, frustration and resentment...
...some extent, the North Koreans have concentrated on waging terrorist attacks against South Korea, but they have also managed to train 2,000 guerrillas from 25 countries; 700 foreign rebels are now believed to be in residence in ten special camps. Training lasts from six to 18 months. Foreigners as well as Koreans are taught taekwondo, the local version of judo and karate, and are put through such rigorous training as running five hours at night, sometimes through rough mountain terrain, shouldering 100-lb. sandbags. "Running, running, running," in fact, is the training slogan...
...campaign, will soon be replaced by Nathaniel Davis, 46, a cool-headed career man currently serving as U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala. Though delicate, Davis' new assignment hardly compares with his last one. He went to Guatemala after his predecessor, John Gordon Mein, was gunned down by terrorist killers in the streets of Guatemala City...