Word: exportation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Terror for Export. Black September has been difficult to combat partly because its members operate in extremely small cells. It gets its money from Al Fatah-which is largely underwritten these days by Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi-as well as directly from other governments and wealthy Palestinians. Whether Arafat knows what goes on is a closely held secret. Many young commandos now consider Arafat a reactionary, and they may deliberately ignore him when laying their plans. Associates say that Arafat was genuinely surprised and upset when he was told of the assassination of Wasfi Tell-though that could have been...
...more frightening aspects of Black September is its ability to export terror. "They will hit anything anywhere if they believe the target is sensitive," says a fedayeen leader. Septembrists, moreover, take pains to point out that "anywhere" includes the U.S. More than that, Black September's planners and operatives are tougher and smarter than guerrillas have generally been in the past. They are frequently the products of the refugee camps in Jordan and Gaza, where more than a million Palestinians still live-and teach their children to hate Israel. Many went to the American University of Beirut and some...
...some accounts, French smugglers are into something far more complex. It is said that the SDECE, France's CIA, has quietly engaged Paris-and Marseille-based smugglers to move arms to a number of Middle East countries. These secret arms shipments are said to enable France to bolster its export arms industry and its influence in the Middle East, while it continues...
...becoming one of the first nations to do so. Since then, narcotics have been the target of no less than nine separate international agreements. The latest one, the U.N.'s 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, calls for what are essentially voluntary restraints on the cultivation, manufacture, import and export of opium and its derivatives...
...letter was politically as well as personally offensive to Boumedienne. Algeria contemplates selling an annual $120 million worth of gas to the U.S. and is seeking an investment loan from the Export-Import Bank. At the same time, Algeria is anxious to maintain its revolutionary image, especially among the black countries to the south, and has welcomed not only the Black Panthers but a score of other revolutionary groups, including the Committee for the Liberation of the Canary Islands. Boumedienne thus could not simply boot Cleaver out of the country without some diplomatic embarrassment...