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...note found nearby claimed they were U.S. and British spies and had been "executed" by "Arab commando cells" in reprisal for the attack on Libya. Collett was kidnapped 13 months ago and Douglas and Padfield last month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Terrorists Strike Back Around the World | 4/18/1986 | See Source »

...there any sense that the war against terrorism was being won on the ground. At week's end a bomb went off in a West Berlin nightclub, killing an American soldier and a West German woman and injuring more than 150 people. Responsibility was claimed by the Holger Meins Commando, which is linked to the Red Army Faction and had previously asserted that it was responsible for the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in Stockholm in February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism Explosion on Flight 840 | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...good guys. In his latest adventure, Blacky confronts the Evil Empire, circa 1954. Stalin is dead, Georgi Malenkov sits unsurely as party chief, and the ruthless Lavrenti Beria, head of the KGB, plots his own ascension. The monolith is in transition, and the U.S. and Britain launch a secret commando raid to overthrow the Soviet- dominated government of Albania. The assault fails because of traitors in high places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bookends the Maul and the Pear Tree | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...There are no guarantees in acting," she said. "Much of acting is luck. Actors have to go by the whims of the public. Take those `Rambo-Commando' type movies for example. You often hear of those `hot' actors who are here today, and gone tomorrow...

Author: By Lea A. Saslav, | Title: Actress Bears Witness to Hollywood Stardom | 3/8/1986 | See Source »

...anonymous caller to a news agency in London claimed Saturday that the assassination was carried out by a leftist West German terrorist group, the Holger Meins Commando. Both Swedish and West German officials were evaluating the claim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Killer Surveilled Palme Before Shooting | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

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