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...killed Ray? Not the assailant who shot at Chapman, apparently, since the descriptions of the two men do not match. In Beirut, a previously unknown group calling itself the Lebanese Army Revolutionary Faction claimed credit for "executing" the officer because of American "crimes" against the Lebanese people. Western intelligence officials did not know whether the group was an offshoot of the Palestine Liberation Organization, a hit squad from Libya or some other Arab country, or indeed whether the report was simply a hoax...
...Minister, Giovanni Spadolini, called the Red Brigades' action "a quantum leap in which the terrorists are trying to transform their armed movement into an armed party." He said that the Italian secret service was investigating possible ties between the Red Brigades and West Germany's Red Army Faction, a band of left-wing terrorists mentioned as potential allies by Dozier's captors. The West German group has been linked by authorities to the September attempt near Heidelberg on the life of General Frederick Kroesen, commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe. Said Spadolini: "The explicit attack...
...demands but merely stated that on Dec. 17 an "armed nucleus" of Red Brigades "had captured and placed in a people's prison the Yankee pig of the American occupying forces." The six-page typed text also solicited international support for West Germany's terrorist Red Army Faction, the Irish Republican Army and Spain's violently separatist Basque...
During recent council hearings Vellucci had sided with the tenants, allowing the council's conservative Independent faction to pass a policy resolution urging the rent control board to exempt the tenants from the ordinance and to send the proposed amendment to a third and final consideration last night...
...divisions have pitted Muslim against Muslim, faction against faction-and, increasingly, right-wing mullahs against the revolution's leader, the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Though the disputes have so far been contained, they have become worrisome enough to elicit a pointed warning from Khomeini: "Let no one doubt that if dissension continues between groups committed to Islam, it will spread nationwide and lead to armed confrontation...