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...Saudis believe the only way the Egyptian President can bring off his gamble for peace is to get major concessions out of the Israelis or, alternatively, trigger a dramatic American move that will force Jerusalem to yield. If neither event happens, the Saudis fear Sadat will lose his credibility and with it his capacity to lead moderate forces in the Arab world. Even if he were to survive politically in Egypt after such a failure, the Saudis argue, he would no longer be a significant Arab leader. Any such collapse of Sadat would leave the Saudis in a vulnerable position...
...that the price tag of all terrorism to date (including ransoms paid and property damaged) falls well short of the $500 million in damage that vandals inflict on U.S. school buildings in an average year. Despite the verbal threats they hurl at established order, contemporary terrorists have yet to trigger a revolution or topple a government...
...operative who had left the movement for a while and wanted to return. The man was taken to an apartment in Jersey City, where an "informer" was being held, then handed a pistol with.a silencer. As José tells it, "The brother turned around and pulled the trigger three times against the man's head. Wow, was he surprised when it didn't work!" The gun was not loaded. The "informer" was, of course, a decoy...
...Pulling the trigger became as common to him as killing a fly." Zamora did not realize he was committing cold-blooded murder, contends Rubin, but "was just acting out a television script." The defense has claimed that circumstances of the crime were eerily similar to two recent episodes of Kojak and a Dracula movie Zamora watched the night before the murder. For its part, the prosecution disputes the plea of insanity, pointing out, for instance, that after the murder, Zamora treated four friends to a long weekend of fun at Disney World, compliments, he told them, of his father...
...Israeli incursion raised fears that a battlefield miscalculation could accidentally trigger a fifth Middle East war. Officials in Damascus complained bitterly that the Israelis were deliberately trying to provoke the Syrian troops in Lebanon. Since the official end of the major civil war in Lebanon last October, to avoid any such confrontation, the Israelis have stayed south of the Litani River -Israel's so-called red line (see map). There was also speculation in Damascus that the Israelis might use any response as an excuse for a pre-emptive strike against Syria. Even if they were not spoiling...