Word: antiterrorist
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...approval and water down the terms of a new supplement to the extradition treaty between the U.S. and Britain. King reminded members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Thatcher had allowed U.S. planes to attack Libya from British bases. She had also backed U.S. demands for a strong antiterrorist stance by the European Community. Now, King implied, it was time for the U.S. to reciprocate...
...bomb in the luggage of a pregnant Irishwoman who was attempting to board a flight from New York City. The bomb was timed to go off when the flight would have been back in the air winging toward Tel Aviv. Said George Churchill-Coleman, head of Scotland Yard's antiterrorist branch: "It is highly likely that an explosion from a device of this type would have resulted in the loss of the aircraft, a 747 jumbo, and the 400 passengers and crew." British police believe the pregnant woman might have been duped into unknowingly carrying the bomb by her lover...
...possible that this attitude will change. While opposing the attack, some European leaders also criticized their own failure to propose any alternative antiterrorist program. Said West Germany's Kohl: "Too frequently, the Europeans have been too satisfied with mere declarations which have been politically ineffectual while leaving the U.S. alone in its struggle against international terrorism . . . If we Europeans do not want to follow the Americans for reasons of our own, we must develop political initiatives...
...Washington, security has been beefed up at the White House, where antiterrorist barricades have been installed to block cars and trucks. At the Pentagon, an underground concourse of shops and banks will soon be closed to anyone without special clearance. The State Department had also set up concrete barricades and sometimes screened visitors with metal detectors, but guards could not prevent a horrifying incident last summer when a 20-year-old man shot his mother to death, then took his own life just 100 yards from Secretary of State George Shultz's office. Since then Foggy Bottom has required more...
...exchange information about movements, routes, identities, weapons stocks, methods, plans, codes, safe houses and bases of all terrorists everywhere. We must be prepared to devise and carry through concerted operations. The hydra is less likely to survive if struck simultaneously in several places. All the democracies must have trained antiterrorist units, and they must be accustomed to acting in concert...