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...included parachute missions behind enemy lines in World War II as well as great wealth and serious conflicts with the Federal Government. Born to a family of bankers and lawyers on Oct. 8, 1905, in a part of Transylvania that now belongs to Rumania, Deak was educated in Hungary, Austria, Switzerland and France and became fluent in five languages. After taking a job with a foreign exchange brokerage firm in New York City in 1939, he joined the U.S. Army as a paratrooper and later became a senior intelligence officer in the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner...
Hours after the assaults, a man speaking in Arabic-accented Spanish called a radio station in Málaga, Spain, and claimed that both attacks had been carried out by the "Abu Nidal organization." Officials in Italy, Austria, Israel and the U.S. all took the claim seriously. Abu Nidal is the code name used by Sabry Khalil Bana, 45, who quit Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization in 1973, contending that Arafat had softened his opposition to Israel. Abu Nidal, in turn, was condemned to death by the P.L.O. Interviewed by Arab reporters recently in Libya, where he reportedly established...
...airport terrorism was especially unsettling to Italy and Austria, which have developed relatively good relations with the P.L.O. in recent years. In addition, the tactic of shooting up an airport area that anyone can enter without going through personal and baggage screening troubled officials who supervise airport security. "We can move passenger check-ins further away from airports," said Vienna's Lord Mayor Helmut Zilk. "But we can't keep them secret...
...police investigations continued in Italy and Austria, a consensus quickly emerged about the identity of the seven known terrorists, only three of whom survived the airport attacks. The men were apparently agents of Abu Nidal and his Fatah Revolutionary Council, which split in 1974 from Yasser Arafat's mainstream Fatah organization and in recent years has spent about as much time and energy trying to kill P.L.O. leaders and other Arabs as it has devoted to fighting Israel...
Jean-Noël Jeanneney, president of the French national library, has since inspired 19 libraries to join the cause. The national libraries in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, and Sweden all signed and released an official oppositional statement soon after Google unveiled the project in December...