Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eagle flood in the shooting zone didn't help the Crimson's settled attack either...
Precedent, though, is not encouraging. Last year the Greek Justice Minister overruled a court decision favoring an Italian extradition request for Palestinian Abdel Osama Al-Zomar, wanted for a bloody attack on a Rome synagogue that killed a two-year-old boy and wounded 34 people. The Minister decreed that Al-Zomar's actions fell "within the domain of the struggle to regain the independence of his homeland." Such frustrating episodes may explain why U.S. authorities occasionally resort to more subterranean alternatives to extradition. In 1987 Lebanese plane hijacker Fawaz Younis was lured out of Cyprus by U.S. agents posing...
...besieging entire housing complexes. They are the drug dealers who have terrorized public- housing projects since the birth of the crack-cocaine trade. Last week Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp announced sweeping plans to drive drug dealers out of public housing. But in his zeal to attack the drug crisis, Kemp may have ignored serious questions of practicality, if not constitutionality...
President-elect Alfredo Cristiani blamed leftist guerrillas for the assassination. Charging that the attack was designed to destabilize his rightist government, which takes power on June 1, Cristiani said the F.M.L.N. rebels were "trying to provoke a vengeful response, but they won't get it." Within a day, however, the military arrested dozens of human-rights and union activists, claiming that they belonged to groups affiliated with the F.M.L.N...
Salvadorans fear the violence will escalate. Five days before the attack on Garcia, a bomb blast ripped through the home of another official of Cristiani's Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), Vice President-elect Francisco Merino, injuring one of Merino's seven children...