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Unification is proving to be a disaster for terrorists. Cooperation between East and West Germany has led to the arrest of nine suspected members of the notorious Red Army Faction. All were caught in East Germany. Last week the trail reached all the way to former Communist Party boss Erich Honecker, who is accused of personally giving safe haven to the terrorists. East German Interior Minister Peter-Michael Diestel said that Honecker and former Minister of State Security Erich Mielke knew exactly how the now disbanded ministry had provided R.A.F. members with false papers, jobs and protection...
...along at what is known as the 'American tempo.' " In his view, the main irritant between the U.S. and Israel is Washington's reluctance to break off talks with the Palestine Liberation Organization following an attempted seaborne terrorist attack on Israeli beaches by a P.L.O. faction...
...paying an unexpected dividend: a combined attack on terrorism. After pooling information from West Germany and the impounded files of the now defunct East German secret police, the Stasi, East German authorities this month arrested seven people believed to be members of West Germany's notorious Red Army Faction, whose bloody campaign claimed more than 20 lives between...
...persuade the Bush Administration to break off its 18-month-old dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Israelis insist that an abortive Palestinian attack on Tel Aviv's beaches two weeks ago demonstrated that the P.L.O. has not given up terrorism. The raid was staged by a P.L.O. faction called the Palestine Liberation Front, but so far P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat has refused U.S. pleas to condemn the operation and to sever ties with Muhammad Abbas, the group's chieftain and ringleader of the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro...
...followers to harass the U.S.-backed government of President Guillermo Endara. "He's saying such things as our case against him is weak and that he will return once he gets off," says a Bush Administration official. "That scares an awful lot of people. He's also running a faction of the opposition, and his objective is to provoke as much instability as he can. Obviously, that's something we find very disturbing...