Word: antiterrorist
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...private plane to Vienna's Schwechat Airport, and then let rumors circulate that he would arrive on Monday. In fact, he showed up in another plane on Sunday night. During the meeting, he was constantly surrounded by his own British-trained security officers as well as by Austrian antiterrorist policemen carrying Israeli-made Uzi submachine guns...
...parliament and with Ecevit anxious to foil him at every turn, the legislature has not been able to enact a law for at least six months. Its efforts to elect a new President have stretched unsuccessfully-and somewhat comically-over more than 100 ballots. Even a package of antiterrorist measures supported by both men has sunk into the partisan quicksand. Demirel's right-center party could probably win a majority if Turks went to the polls tomorrow, but Ecevit's left-center group and a small bloc of Islamic fundamentalists have stymied attempts to move the elections...
...been unable to unite completely in the face of the terrorist tide. Premier Süleyman Demirel and Opposition Leader Bülent Ecevit have distrusted each other for years. Late last week the two leaders huddled privately and managed to agree to support a limited package of new antiterrorist legislation. Otherwise, they have so far refused even to cooperate in the election of a new President, a post that remains unfilled after more than 100 indecisive parliamentary ballots in four months...
Tucked away in a Hereford hamlet on England's border with Wales is the supersecret headquarters of the 22nd regiment of the Special Air Service (S.A.S.)-demonstrably the world's toughest antiterrorist commando unit...
...unit is credited with halving the rate at which British servicemen were murdered by I.R.A. gunmen. One reason for the S.A.S.'s success has been its fearsome psychological impact on terrorists in South Armagh. So great is the S.A.S. reputation that European governments have often called upon its antiterrorist squads for help. During the 1977 hijacking of a Lufthansa 707 to Mogadishu, for example, the S.A.S. sent two men to advise West German commandos in their successful storming of the aircraft...