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Name a terrorist group, says the State Department, and Libya has probably provided financial assistance, at least. Gaddafi has backed not just radical Palestinian organizations but outfits as distant as Colombia's M-19 guerrillas, which engineered the bloody takeover of Bogota's Palace of Justice last November; the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front on the French Pacific-island territory of New Caledonia; and anti-Turkish Armenian terrorist groups. Last month, when Gaddafi played host to the ambitiously titled Congress of the World Center for Struggle Against Imperialism and Zionism, his guests included representatives of the Irish Republican Army...
...same time, Antonio Zumel, apparent chairman of the National Democratic Front, an umbrella group for various guerrilla factions, declared last week that Communist leaders were ready to open talks with the Aquino government "without preconditions," though he expressed skepticism about a cease-fire. "Comrades are asking if there have been any feelers from her," he said. "We want to know what's on her mind...
...many Israelis, the wounded at Qiryat Shemona dramatically underscored the continued vulnerability of the northern border region. Just 90 minutes after the attack, Israeli fighter planes bombed two buildings near Palestinian refugee camps outside the port city of Sidon that were reputed to be headquarters for Fatah, the P.L.O. guerrilla faction. At least ten people were killed and 25 were wounded...
...long made it their business to probe the Third World, seeking to add satellites to their orbit. Under the so-called Reagan Doctrine, the Administration has decreed that the U.S. can no longer afford to watch passively as the Soviets consolidate their power. Through the use of surrogates and guerrilla movements, long a Soviet tactic, the Reagan Administration seeks to roll back Communism, or at least make Soviet expansionism more costly...
...contras, like the Sandinista troops, have been widely accused of committing atrocities against civilians. The facts are difficult to know; in a brutish guerrilla war, it is sometimes hard to distinguish between civilians and combatants. Although the U.S. military is currently barred from advising the contras, the Administration plans to send U.S. advisers to train them in their Honduran camps as soon as Congress passes an aid package. By instilling better discipline, U.S. advisers have been able to improve the behavior of Salvadoran troops; it is hoped that they would do the same for the contras...