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...became far less discriminate in their mayhem, far more ready to kill for killing's sake. And since last year, policemen have been a special target for the Red assassination squads-a tribute paid to the growing expertise of the nation's "white mice" in catching the terrorist before he strikes...
...love nothing better than a good crime story, responded enthusiastically. Harry was spotted almost simultaneously in Cornwall, Glamorgan, Cumberland, Great Yarmouth and Leicester, then on the Isles of Sheppey and Wight. He was reported hiding out at Tilbury Fort, at a girls' school in Essex, and with a terrorist Republican band in Ireland...
...were searching for a band of killers who fortnight ago gunned down a village mayor and his five companions in a roadside ambush. The deaths brought to more than 60 the number of mayors, village officials and ordinary law-abiding citizens who in recent months have died by the terrorist's bullet. The statistic underscores the problem that has risen to plague the seven-month-old regime of President Ferdinand Marcos: the resurgence of the Hukbong Magpapalaya sa Bayan,* the backwoods Communist guerrillas known as Huks...
...moderate Arab monarch: antiCommunist, pro-Western, and opposed to throwing anything more threatening than verbal brickbats at Israel. Jordan has the longest and most vulnerable border with Israel of any of the Arab nations, is the first target of the Israelis' periodic retaliatory raids to Arab terrorist bombings...
Force with Force. Thailand is determined that it will not become another Viet Nam. The tempo of terrorist activities became so great in December that the army was called into the Northeast for the first time. A battalion of 1,500 Royal Thai soldiers, made mobile by helicopters, now sweeps the foothills in search of guerrillas. "We have to meet force with force," says Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn. Bangkok has also countered the Communist drive with an impressive program of aid and roadbuilding (TIME, Dec. 24), points out that Thailand has some things going for it that Viet...