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...metallic mercury of the kind used in thermometers ?potentially dangerous to very young children but not to adults. Nonetheless, the tampered oranges were a shock to Europe, especially after it became known that they were fruits of political terrorism. In a letter to the West German government, an extremist group calling itself the Arab Revolutionary Army-Palestine Command claimed it had doctored the fruit to disrupt Israel's economy...
Most of the violence and killing is the work of an assortment of 115 identifiable extremist political movements, splinter groups and urban guerrilla commandos, 94 belonging to the far left and 21 to the neo-Fascist right. Between January and October 1977, ultras of one stripe or another were responsible for 1,693 attacks on people and property, an increase of 40% over the previous year and almost three times the total of 628 in 1975. Italy was also Europe's most explosive society: more than 2,000 terror-connected bombings occurred there last year, almost double the number...
...July of that year the junta then in power in Athens conspired with extremist Greek Cypriots to topple Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus. Their goal was to unite the island republic with Greece. Makarios barely escaped with his life and fled into exile. His place was usurped by Nikos Sampson, notorious for having committed acts of terrorism against the Turkish minority on Cyprus. After a week of protests and warnings, Ankara moved unilaterally to avert Greek annexation of the island; Turkish paratroops and landing craft invaded. Sampson fell. So, within days, did his mentors in Athens. Makarios returned to Cyprus...
There is also a question of tone. Women on both sides are repelled by what they consider to be the abstract, unfeeling rhetoric of the extremist opposition. The pro-family people are put off by some feminists who dismiss abortions as mere bodily functions. They are equally unsettled by the pervasive bias of the women's movement toward Big Government. Pro-family forces would rather rely on the private sector and their own initiative?that would furnish more positive proof that women have finally arrived in America...
...decade, Sullivan was involved in many abuses including "black bag" operating and illegal wiretapping of National Security Council phones that were later revealed by the Senate Intelligence Committee. Though long a loyal lieutenant of Hoover's in his obsessive war against Communism, Sullivan later criticized Hoover's extremist views and retired in 1971 after arriving at his office to find his nameplate gone and his lock changed...