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More realistic are the tips received almost every day on Communist assassination plots. Last week Lodge narrowly missed possible death when he visited the Saigon waterfront to observe damage to the U.S. aircraft ferry Card, which had been dynamited by Communist saboteurs. A terrorist on a bicycle tossed a grenade into the street, injuring eight U.S. soldiers, just ten minutes after Lodge had left the site. For an aging, home-loving, peace-minded politician, Lodge takes a singularly calm view of these goings-on. Says he: "There's really not much point in worrying about such reports because there...
...further evidence of growing Viet Cong boldness and the frequent inefficiency of South Vietnamese security measures. Only weeks earlier, American advisers had requested that the dock be better guarded, but received no response. On the evening after the Card explosion, eight U.S. servicemen in Saigon were wounded when a terrorist on a bicycle threw a bomb...
Before he died, Lenin carefully considered the man who was to succeed him. Joseph Stalin had risen to the post of first party secretary from his beginnings as a terrorist and holdup man for party funds. In his political testament, Lenin warned in vain against making Stalin his successor, because he considered him too rude and too ambitious...
Died. Brendan Francis Behan, 41, professional Irish tosspot and boyo terrible, semiprofessional writer of wit and distinction, a pudgy, rumpled, onetime juvenile terrorist for the I.R.A. who staggered into the limelight in 1958 with his scabrous reform-school memoir, Borstal Boy, two brilliantly nihilistic plays of Dublin low jinks, The Quare Fellow and The Hostage, but despite faint, repeated vows to stay "off the gargle" subsequently squandered his fireworks in binges from Los Angeles to London; of diabetes, jaundice and acute alcoholism; in Dublin...
...armory raiders were no ordinary thugs but members of a terrorist organization called the Quebec Liberation Army, operating in the French-speaking province. Its aim is to blast Quebec free from the rest of English-speaking Canada and set up an independent nation. In the past year the terrorists have dynamited army installations, planted time bombs in mailboxes, and now they are stealing guns. Total haul so far: 92 rifles, 30 submachine guns, three antitank bazookas, four field mortars, 17,200 rounds of ammunition...