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Islamic Jihad, an extremist Shiite group whose name means Moslem Holy War, released a picture of American hostage Terry Anderson. It threatened action against the Saudi government and the United States...
Others are preoccupied by the fact that Israel is still besieged from within by frequent acts of random violence. A Jewish settler was killed a few weeks ago when her car was fire bombed on the road to the settlement of Alfei Menashe. In retaliation, settlers belonging to the extremist Gush Emunim movement rampaged through the nearby Arab town of Kalkilya. The West Bank's Bir Zeit University has been closed for four months, following student rioting that left one Arab dead at the hands of Israeli soldiers. Occupation authorities have shut down the school eleven times in the past...
...years the organization of Political Extremist Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. has evaded payment of $21 million in fines imposed for ignoring subpoenas in the Government's credit-card fraud investigation of LaRouche's operations. Exasperated, the U.S. got inventive. Without informing LaRouche's lawyers, U.S. attorneys persuaded a federal judge to put three of LaRouche's outfits into involuntary bankruptcy. Next day U.S. marshals seized companies and offices nationwide, a rare Government use of a creditor's bankruptcy confiscation rights...
Meanwhile, French authorities announced the arrests in Paris of eight suspected terrorists, at least some of them with close ties to pro-Iranian extremist groups in Lebanon, on weapons and conspiracy charges. Besides guns and ammunition, twelve quarts of the liquid explosive methyl nitrate were found, leading officials to believe the suspected terrorists were planning a bombing campaign similar to the one that rocked Paris last fall. Police described all of the suspects as devout Shi'ite Muslims, and six of them carried expired Tunisian passports...
International security and real disarmament are impossible without greater trust between the nations of the West and the U.S.S.R. and other socialist countries. There must be a settlement of regional conflicts on the basis of compromise and restoration of stability wherever it has been disrupted. Support for destabilizing and extremist forces and all terrorist groups should be ended, along with attempts to expand the sphere of influence of one side at the expense of the other. All countries should work together on economic, social and ecological problems. Greater openness and democracy in our country are necessary. We need the free...