Word: antiterrorist
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...challenge for U.S. antiterrorist planners is to take sensible precautions without turning Government buildings into fortresses or resorting to police-state tactics. American embassies have been treading that narrow line for years, beefing up security while trying to remain a symbol of an open and hospitable government. The State Department has undertaken 200 security projects at 120 chancelleries since the U.S. embassy in Beirut was blasted last April. When Secretary of State George Shultz flew into Tunis this month, his aircraft wingtip lights were doused and the plane even made an unusual zigzag landing approach...
...ordered the pilot to fly to Turkey. Instead, the captain alerted ground control and flew in circles around the airport at Tbilisi before finally touching down there. Throughout the afternoon and night, the plane sat on the tarmac while the hijackers demanded that it be refueled. Meanwhile, a crack antiterrorist squad was brought in from Moscow. On the following morning, the security forces stormed the plane and the hijackers, reportedly the children of prominent Georgian officials, eventually surrendered. By the time the smoke had cleared, a crew member, a flight mechanic, an air hostess, at least three of the unknown...
Prior refused to resign and dismissed calls for greatly tougher security measures as either impractical or likely to hand the I.R.A. new propaganda weapons. Instead, he promised a modest redeployment of the 10,000 British troops in Northern Ireland, with more undercover antiterrorist patrols by police and the elite Special Air Service. In an attempt to lure the Unionists back into the Assembly, Prior also invited four of Northern Ireland's political parties to talks on security. Meanwhile, in a radio interview, the Prime Minister of the Irish Republic, Garret Fitzgerald, a Catholic, seemed close to tears...
When the 1981 crime occurred, a federal antiterrorist task force was already in place in New York City and quickly entered the case. Led by Kenneth Walton, No. 2 man in the New York FBI office, the task force eventually grew to number more than 200, as dozens of investigators were drawn into the probe from the New York and New Jersey state police, the New York City police and several Rockland County communities. The investigation has taken task force agents as far away as Mississippi, Texas and California. One continuing focus has been on finding six fugitives named...
...week 32 U.S.-made M48 tanks were hoisted off a ship in Beirut for delivery to the Lebanese army. Twenty-eight Green Berets from the U.S. Army Special Forces, part of a team of 75 American advisers now in Lebanon, will begin training the Lebanese in infantry procedures and antiterrorist tactics this week...