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...there are signs that they are stirring under the influence of the new terror. In Paris, police credit a Maoist group called the Proletarian Left with 82 terrorist acts in the first five months of 1970. This summer, its "No Vacations for the Rich" program featured sabotage attacks on Riviera resorts. Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre belongs to the 2,000-member group and edits its newspaper, but his efforts have gone unnoticed; the police have confiscated every issue since Sartre took up his pencil...
...fedayeen have scored a major triumph of sorts with the airline hijackings. They now seem to have concluded that such tactics are counterproductive; George Habash, leader of the extremist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, is reported to have "considerably cooled down" on skyjackings. Nevertheless, they inspired other terrorists by seizing the very symbols of modern technological power and holding the world at bay for a harrowing week of blackmail. They also serve as models and instructors for other terrorist groups...
...bills for "serious" visiting revolutionaries, but apparently he did not feel that Dohrn and Leary belonged in that category. At week's end there were reports that the two had been asked to leave Algeria and were on their way to another guerrilla training ground: Jordan. Palestinian terrorists have trained radicals from West Germany, Nicaragua and the U.S. in camps outside Amman. A Canadian journalist touring a guerrilla camp in the Jordanian mountains, was astonished to find two young Montrealers in Bedouin headgear learning the craft of "selective assassination." The youths, both members of the F.L.Q., thought that problems with...
What makes them tick? Undoubtedly, the dehumanizing conditions of the modern city contribute to the paranoia that often marks the urban terrorist. Those conditions also intensify his sense of alienation?and make it easier for him to depersonalize the "pigs" and other targets of his violence. Historian Hisham Sharabi, at the American University...
Beirut, maintains that there are two ways to view the terrorist. "The sympathetic approach holds that the individual is overcome by despair that he will ever accomplish anything by conventional means, and one implication is the severance of the last ethical link with established values in society." The hostile approach, he says, is to "see a common denominator in childhood experience, psychic debility or even derangement...