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...targets. In the case of the Achille Lauro, for example, it appears that the hijackers chose the cruise liner because the usual avenues of access to Israel--by land and air--have been blocked by Israeli security measures. There is also what Brian Jenkins, a Rand Corp. terrorist expert, describes as a kind of novelty factor. Says Jenkins: "If you want to stay in the headlines and exercise coercive power over governments, you have to do novel things...
...fragmentation of the P.L.O. in the wake of its 1982 expulsion from Lebanon may help explain the increased violence. Now dispersed from North Africa to the Persian Gulf, the P.L.O.'s young guerrillas are becoming bored after three years of relative inactivity. Says a P.L.O. expert in Tunis: "Launching a raid against Israel, however dangerous, is better than sitting around in a camp in North Yemen...
...more intense. But will it work? For one thing, alcohol is considered a cure-all for everything from flu to frostbite. For another, vodka is a traditional refuge from the hardships of Russian life, and that is as true today as ever, says Duke University's Vladimir Treml, an expert on alcoholism in the U.S.S.R. "Soviet life is so boring," he says. "Housing is crowded, there are not enough entertainment facilities. So people drink...
...Kolberg," a surrealistic film directed by Veit Harlan, was intended to give a "shot in the arm" to low German morale, said Senior Lecturer on Social Studies Richard M. Hunt, an expert on the film and culture of Nazi Germany...
...they do find are often useless. Fingerprints can prove that a particular suspect was at the scene of a crime, but when investigators have only prints and no suspect, the odds of finding a match are greatly reduced. Los Angeles police estimate that it would have taken a single expert searching manually through the city's 1.7 million print cards 67 years to come up with Richard Ramirez's prints. "Frankly speaking," says Commander Bill Rathburn, "most of the dusting for prints we do is for public relations purposes, to show people that we're doing something to pursue...