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Though there were no new disasters last week to fuel the global jitters further, the images of recent violence lingered. A hijacking in Athens. An airport bombing in Frankfurt. A luggage explosion in Tokyo. A plane crash off the Irish coast. In the aftermath of so much tragedy, governments struggled to identify the causes and find and punish those responsible, while tightening security on the ground and in the air to prevent recurrences...
...Frankfurt, an overstuffed gray travel bag left unnoticed beside a trash can in the international airport blew up next to a row of metal chairs. West German police found the mutilated remains of three victims, who were eventually identified as a Portuguese man and two Australian children. Another 42 were injured, including one American. Police had no clues to the identity or motive of the bomber...
...This cannot continue," said Ronald Reagan in a formal statement rushed out by the White House after the Frankfurt bombing and San Salvador killings. The statement promised consultation with U.S. allies "to determine what actions, military and otherwise," can be taken against terrorists. In a speech in Dallas on Friday, the President linked those outrages with the TWA hijacking as constituting "an attack on all Western civilization by uncivilized barbarians." He quoted Theodore Roosevelt: "The American people are slow to wrath, but once their wrath is kindled it burns like a consuming flame...
...also the perverted emblem of his origins. He came from a wealthy commercial family in Bavaria. He studied Kant, earned a Ph.D. at the University of Munich and his medical degree at the University of Frankfurt. An early convert to Nazism, he volunteered for the Waffen SS. On the railroad ramp at Auschwitz, where Mengele presided over the selection process, deciding which of the terrified prisoners were fit for slave labor and which were fit only for the gas chambers, he wore white gloves and highly polished boots, and occasionally whistled fragments of Wagner. In doing so, he defiled music...
First Poland expelled two U.S. diplomats it charged had taken part in May Day demonstrations outside Cracow. Then the State Department struck back by sending four Polish diplomats packing. Last week the Polish government retaliated by cutting off the "Hamburger Specials," flights from Frankfurt that every two months brought in comforts for the U.S. embassy staff, from toothpaste to grade-A ground sirloin, as well as mail and packages from home. The shipments were allowed into Poland without the usual rigorous customs inspection...