Word: antiterrorist
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...terms of the Camp David peace accords. The focus of the campaign is Yamit, an Israeli settlement of 2,500 situated on a strand of sand beside the Mediterranean. Settled six years ago, Yamit even now is no bigger than a college campus. Behind a 110-ft. wire-mesh antiterrorist fence that looks incongruous in such a peaceful setting, Yamit's residents have skillfully managed to turn their town into a blooming oasis of lush, neatly manicured gardens. Outside the community, a series of smaller farming settlements has prospered with the aid of the latest in irrigation methods...
Most of those who disappeared, the desaparecidos, were abducted by plainclothesmen claiming to be members of the Argentine security forces. The evidence is overwhelming that many, if not most, of those seized were tortured, murdered, and their bodies dumped in secret graves. The ferocity of the antiterrorist campaign made Argentina a special target for human rights activists in the U.S. Congress and in the Carter Administration...
...Indonesian commandos had flown to Bangkok two days prior to the attack. After initial reluctance the Thais agreed to deploy 50 army sharpshooters around the DC-9 to back up the Indonesian antiterrorist force. Other governments concurred in the no-deals approach. Said U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Morton Abramowitz, reflecting Washington's sentiment: "The only way to deal with terrorists is a firm refusal to give in to their demands...
...Soviet and Afghan authorities at Kabul airport, where the hijacked plane stayed for six days. Despite repeated entreaties from Islamabad and Washington, they had shown little willingness to work toward ending the standoff. There were the Syrian officials in Damascus, who refused to let Zia send a Pakistani antiterrorist unit and also declined to launch a Syrian commando raid against the hijackers. There was Zia himself, who apparently had no military option left and therefore chose to give in to the demands to avoid a "bloodbath." Finally, there was the Libyan government, which initially offered asylum to the 54 Pakistani...
...inspiration for both "M," the intelligence chief in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, and George Smiley, the deceptively bland hero of John le Carré thrillers like Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; of cancer; in London. In 1979 Oldfield emerged from a brief retirement to head an antiterrorist security force in Northern Ireland following the assassination of Earl Mountbatten by the Provisional I.R.A...