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...first police theorized that Jeff could have been Pimental's killer. But last week the Frankfurt office of the Reuters news agency received a copy of a letter from the Red Army Faction, a West German terrorist group, and the French extremist organization Direct Action claiming responsibility for the air-base bombing. More startling, the envelope contained Pimental's green military identification card. The West German authorities now think they may have an explanation for how the terrorists managed to drive their bomb-laden car past the guards at the air base: they might simply have flashed Pimental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Notes: Aug. 26, 1985 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Mubarak accused the hijackers of being members of a Palestinian terrorist group opposed to Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat and closely aligned with Mubarak's enemy, Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi. Though Mubarak did not mention the group by name, he seemed to be referring to the Abu Nidal faction, which has previously taken responsibility for a number of particularly heinous terrorist crimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Massacre in Malta | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...police arrested 48 suspects in connection with the sabotage, including Masashi Kamata, 32, the reputed leader of Chukaku-ha, or Middle Core Faction, an ultraleftist group that organized violent anti-U.S. demonstrations in the '60s. In recent years it has made headlines with its attacks on the new international airport at Narita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Paralysis on the Tracks | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...exploded, injuring 35 people, most of them Americans. The attack was the 19th this year against U.S. military posts in West Germany. On Aug. 8, two Americans were killed and 20 injured at the Rhein-Main Air Base in a car bombing claimed by the terrorist Red Army Faction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Notes: Dec. 9, 1985 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Back in China, Deng, frequently living underground began a long series of political and military assignments for the Communists, that carried him gradually, if not always smoothly, to higher ranks. His earliest misstep, resulting in a brief period out of favor, was to ally himself with a party faction that favored basing the drive to power on rural rather than urban insurrection, then a departure from orthodoxy. The leading advocate of that strategy was none other than Mao, who was working in another province at the time and therefore was spared the humiliation Deng suffered Deng was rehabilitated in time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deng Xiaoping: The Comeback Comrade | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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