Word: antiterrorist
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Since he took over the Socialist leadership in 1974, González has built a reputation for moderation. In 1979, for example, he persuaded the party to drop the term Marxist from its platform. He has supported the government on such issues as antiterrorist laws and regional autonomy, and proceeded to mold the party in the pattern of social democratic parties elsewhere in Western Europe. The result has been growing public confidence in the party's ability to govern...
Finally, the terrorists turned their political demands into a simple plea for safe conduct to Albania or China, and a $1.4 million ransom. The Swiss government immediately rejected that idea. Warsaw offered to send in its own antiterrorist squad to help the Bern police, but the Swiss firmly refused. Then the Swiss police made their move...
...obvious danger in Honduras' new antiguerrilla campaign is that Suazo Cordova and Alvarez will seek to suppress subversion too zealously while trampling on the citizenry. Some Hondurans are already alarmed at Decree 33, an antiterrorist law that Suazo Córdova has pushed through the National Assembly. A countervailing danger is that antiguerrilla efforts by the 14,000-member Honduran armed forces will prove ineffective, leading to an increase in guerrilla activities within the country. "Honduras is poor," notes one prominent diplomat in Tegucigalpa. "If [its leaders] want to play this game, they'd better be damn sure...
...Brigades launched their murderous campaign, officials have also rounded up numerous sympathizers who form the terrorists' underground support network. They include operatives who supplied the Brigades with information from redoubts as diverse as parliament, the office of a Cabinet minister, the army and even the police antiterrorist squad...
...trim, crew-cut Dozier, 50, the days following his dramatic rescue by a team of Italian antiterrorist commandos on Jan. 28 have been a whirlwind of debriefings, press conferences and meetings with heads of state in both Italy and the U.S. Before flying to Washington for breakfast with Reagan, the general lunched with Italian President Sandro Pertini, then met with Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini at Rome's Chigi Palace. Throughout, Dozier handled himself like a practiced politician, showing no signs of the anxiety or depression that so often afflicts victims of a hostage taking. Only once, when...