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Priestly Aid. Credit for the terrorist campaign has been claimed by Euzkadi ta Askatasuna (Basque Land and Liberty), an outlawed movement that started in 1953 as a youth group. It has since split with the Basque Nationalist Party, which has worked peacefully for independence since the late 19th century. E.T.A. now campaigns on behalf of what it calls "colonized and oppressed" Basques with nightrider tactics and a Marxist vocabulary. "We have gathered our forces to form a national liberation front," says one of its leaders. "We will not stop until we have achieved the creation of a truly democratic socialist...
...right to make arrests without a warrant. Outgoing foreign-press dispatches were delayed and censored. The question remained: Who killed the ambassador? A statement attributed to the pro-Castro Rebel Armed Forces (FAR) claimed that they had tried to kidnap Mein in retaliation for the arrest of an FAR terrorist four days earlier. That was most likely the answer...
Sabotaged Aims. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan rushed to Jerusalem in order to reassure the frightened Arabs who had locked themselves in their shut tered homes. Denouncing the riots as "criminal hooliganism," he blamed the bombings on terrorist infiltrators and exonerated the local Arab population. "We want to see a single unified Jerusalem, and by confusing the large civilian population with a small group of saboteurs, we are sabotaging our own aims," argued Dayan...
...Arab terrorist organization El Fatah promptly claimed credit for the explosions that brought the total number of such incidents to 14 in two months. Its aim: to unsettle the civilian population and sabotage the modus vivendi between Jews and Arabs in Je rusalem. After a protest strike by the Arab population, normal life returned to Jerusalem. But on the Israeli-Jor danian border, the military hostilities erupted anew. At week's end Israelis and Jordanians were peppering one another across the frontier with small-arms fire...
Young was supported by the league's white officials. "Of course I'm for Black Power," declared James A. Linen, President of Time Inc. and newly elected national president of the league. "But not for black terrorist power, not for black power for vengeance-but for vindication. Black Power will succeed if black Americans push into the world rather than withdraw from...