Word: anties
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mogadishu, the Somali capital, came from an unexpected source: Israel. Jerusalem Correspondent David Halevy obtained from an Israeli short-wave radio enthusiast a tape recording of fragments of the communications he had monitored. They were between Flight 181, two other planes carrying the West German negotiator and anti-terrorist commandos, Lufthansa headquarters and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's crisis group, which was directing the operation...
...fight; indeed, they welcome it. Much of the political right sees in the Panama Canal the ideal issue to rally the troops, gain recruits and make a political comeback. Conservative-financed literature is popping up everywhere, and members of Congress concede they are influenced by the torrent of anti-treaty mail because there is so little on the other side; The treaty, like many worthy foreign policy enterprises, lacks an organized constituency. Nevertheless, the canal issue is fraught with risk for conservatives. If the treaty is ratified, they are losers; if it is rejected and the canal is disrupted...
...major obstacle to an effective anti-terrorist campaign is the lack of a truly global consensus on the issue. Since 1963, six major international conventions dealing with aspects of terrorism have been adopted by consortiums of nations. But as long as there are states that will not sign such agreements, and no punitive measures can be taken against them, enforcement is impossible. A number of countries, notably Libya, South Yemen, Iraq, North Korea and Cuba, provide terrorists with money, arms or a haven; they seem to enjoy watching the industrial democracies squirm. Tough anti-terrorist resolutions have been presented...
...Western democracies lack any coherent ideological or political goals. Violence is the attraction?the end, not the means. Notes Brian Jenkins, an associate director at Rand Corp.: "The act of terror itself is an ideology." Harvey Schlossberg, a psychiatrist who trains the New York City Police Department's anti-terrorist unit, contends that many urban terrorists are compensating for inadequate personalities. "If they cry and stamp their feet, no one pays attention. But by taking hostages, in a matter of minutes the whole world is watching. This helps overcome their ego deficit." What motivates many terrorists, observes University of Munich...
Anthony Keating's conversion from the smug anti-commerce snobbery of his idle friends (rich and not-so-rich alike) to the property fever of Wincobank occurs while he is reviewing video clips of Austin Jones, the "bright young man" he has sent to interview Wincobank. Suddenly, lightening strikes...