Word: attacker
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From the first, there was no doubt that the goal of the Red Brigades' attack against what they called "the heart of the state" was the destruction of that accommodation and the fomenting of chaos that would lead to civil war. Moro was seized on the same day that the governing agreement he had succeeded in obtaining, bringing the Communists into the parliamentary majority, was to be voted on in parliament. In a series of haranguing "communiqués," the kidnapers pointedly indicted their victim as his party's "political godfather" while attacking the Christian Democrats as "antiproletarian...
...journalists as well as businessmen, and added a new crime: murder. The targets in Italy's long tradition of political violence had almost always been the police, soldiers and statesmen. But for the Red Brigades, notes Rome Historian Rosario Romeo, revolutionary action "is essentially class action. They attack businessmen and professional men as representatives of a class rather than as individuals. Their targets are marked because of their social position, not their political beliefs...
Most experts on modern terrorism agree that the danger in combating it is to fall into a repressive reaction-which is exactly what the terrorists seek to provoke-and thus undermine the democratic values that are under attack. In the 1970s. Uruguay, once the model of democracy in South America, succeeded in wiping out the leftist Tupamaros. The cost was great: the get-tough climate set the stage for the military to seize power and set up a dictatorship. The dilemma of how to cope with terrorism is not lost on any European government these days. Spanish Premier Adolfo Suarez...
With or without the F-15, the Saudis have no illusions about being able to fight off a serious attack from Israel, to say nothing of a combined assault by hostile neighbors with Soviet backing. Thus the very modest Saudi strategy is to be strong enough to hold out for a mere two or three days until international support could be rallied and a powerful friend ? say the U.S. ? could rush...
...other presentations, attack Dave Wigglesworth picked up the Herman Hammerman "Unsung Hero" award, while husky crease ace Mac DeCamp was named the most improved player...