Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right: Hobie and his father are as estranged from each other as Darwin is from them both. But he is wrong about one thing. They all belong to the land. The America of interstates and McDonald's does not belong to these people, nor does the Boston of the Combat Zone or Harvard Yard. Although they may adjust to it, they will never be a part of it; they don't belong here...
...been raging for more than a decade on a global battlefield. And it threatens to grow more intense. The tactics of combat include assassinations, kidnapings, skyjackings and bombings, as small cells of urban terrorists attack the institutions of the world's industrial democracies. The principal victims are not soldiers but civilians: public officials and businessmen, as well as schoolrooms of children, planeloads of tourists and trains packed with commuters...
...biological, chemical and radiological?to say nothing of nuclear?arms with which to frighten the innocent. Warns Laqueur: "In ten or fifteen years, terrorists will have the weapons of superviolence; then perhaps even a single person will be able to blackmail an entire town, district or country." To combat tomorrow's terrorist, new and creative measures, as well as an unprecedented degree of international cooperation, will be required. The one certainty is that civilization's war on terrorism will...
Since terrorism in general and skyjacking in particular became international political threats, Western governments have created special units to combat guerrillas and, if possible, rescue their terrified victims. The senior service in the war against terrorism is Britain's 900-man Special Air Service Regiment. Founded in Libya in 1942 to penetrate the lines of Rommel's Afrika Korps, the S. A.S. has battled Communist guerrillas in Malaya, Mau Mau insurgents in Kenya, and I.R.A. gunmen in South Armagh. Probably the most seasoned commando force is Israel's General Intelligence and Reconnaissance Unit 269; its accomplishments include...
...successful mission to Mogadishu. Grenzschutzgruppe Neun, or Border Protection Group 9, was created five years ago, after a bungled West German rescue attempt led to the Munich massacre of nine Israeli hostages and five of their Palestinian captors. The man chosen to organize a new unit that would combat terrorism was its present commander: Ulrich Wegener, 48, a veteran officer of the federal border police. Wiry and tough, quiet and smart, Wegener saw his first military service as a 15-year-old pressed into Luftwaffe duty in the closing days of World War II. He learned English during seven months...