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...after the blast news organizations in West Germany received a 2˝ page letter in German jointly signed by two terrorist groups, West Germany's Red Army Faction and France's Direct Action. Composed on paper carrying the R.A.F.'s symbol, a five-pointed star overlaid with a submachine gun, the letter said in stilted, jargon-filled language that the attack had been the work of a joint "politico-military front in Western Europe with NATO as its main target." It called the Rhein-Main base a "pivotal point for war against the Third World and a nest of spies...
Direct Action, which shares the R.A.F.'s far-left tactic of attacking military and industrial targets, apparently drew its members from two older terrorist organizations and committed at least 18 assaults in France during 1979 and 1980. Direct Action first claimed to be aligned with the R.A.F. last January after gunning down the French Defense Ministry's chief of arms sales, General René Audran...
...waters around Mururoa Atoll, 700 miles southeast of Tahiti, to protest French atomic tests in the area. As the Rainbow Warrior lay prow up in the harbor, New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange, himself a vocal opponent of nuclear testing, deplored the incident as "a major criminal act with terrorist overtones...
...tentative and even contradictory in their objectives and strategies. Peres' U.N. speech could not be separated from his other apparent goal, the removal of the P.L.O. from the peace negotiations. The Israeli leader has repeatedly argued that Arafat has "dealt himself out of the peace process" with his alleged terrorist practices. As Peres often puts it, "You cannot talk and kill at the same time...
...least one terrorist, however, was apparently telling a different story. It was confirmed last week that two of the accused had been moved from the maximum-security facility at Spoleto to prisons near Genoa, where magistrates last week granted U.S. officials permission to question them. Perhaps as a result of their testimony, another terrorist suspect was arrested on the outskirts of Rome. According to unconfirmed Italian press reports, one hijacker told Genoa investigators that Abul Abbas had masterminded their operation. He also reportedly said that Abul Abbas had promised to spring the four terrorists from prison, threatening to stage kidnaping...