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...also provided the means by which radical groups as ideologically alike but logistically separate as the Japanese and Palestinians can get together in a kind of terrorists international. Japanese Assassin Kozo Okamoto, for instance, was apparently recruited by an Arab who flew into Japan to show a film on commando warfare. While there, the Arab also surreptitiously offered disenchanted Japanese students forged passports, air fare and a chance for a twisted kind of glory...
...Association protested the danger to passengers in such go-for-broke shootouts. As it happened, three aboard Flight 517 had been wounded. One 22-year-old Israeli was in critical condition; she had leaped up in panic when the firing started and was shot in the head by a commando who mistook her for one of the Arabs. The International Red Cross angrily cried that it had been duped by the Israelis. Arabs nevertheless accused the agency of complicity. In Beirut, where Red Cross week was in progress, volunteers soliciting donations were attacked on the street by Black September supporters...
...Surrender! Surrender!" shouted the Turkish commando colonel through a loudspeaker. The only answer from the small band of terrorists who were holed up in a shack near the mountainous Turkish village of Kizildere was a volley of gunfire and abuse. The guerrillas were members of a small extremist organization called the Turkish People's Liberation Army. Late last month, they had kidnaped three NATO radar technicians from a nearby Turkish air force base, and were holding them as hostages for the lives of three other terrorists who have been sentenced to die for the kidnaping-murder of an Israeli...
...company he is the most amiable of men-quick with his tongue, handy with a glass, a devil with the ladies. During World War II he was also a brave soldier, but you'll never hear about that from Niven. All he reports of his experiences as a commando major during the Normandy landing is that he could hardly hear the guns for the nightingales...
Under the cover of night on April 21, 1970, five Miamians, calling themselves the "Eco-Commando Force '70," sneaked into six sewage-treatment plants and threw packets of yellow dye into the works. The next day half of Dade County's canals turned bright yellow, graphically illustrating that Miami's inadequately treated sewage does not get far from home...