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...Palestinian renegade Abu Nidal, probably the world's most wanted terrorist. The caller said the bombing was in retaliation for U.S. missile attacks on Libyan targets last month during the showdown over the right of foreign ships to use the waters of the Gulf of Sidra. A four-page handwritten statement repeating this claim and promising further attacks against U.S. targets "across the world" was later delivered to Beirut newspapers. Qassam was slain by the British during a revolt in Palestine in 1936. His name has frequently been used by terrorist factions linked to Abu Nidal, whose real name...
...grammar and punctuation at times were-well, unconventional. And so were the thoughts in at least one passage of the three-page handwritten letter, dated July 15, 1960, and addressed to Richard Nixon (as "Dear Mr. Vice Pres."). Discussing Nixon's opponent for the presidency, the author wrote...
...watches Reagan prepare for his national press conferences, Deaver can tell within minutes how well the President will do that night. Deaver always slips the President a handwritten message just before Reagan steps out the door to confront reporters. Sometimes the message teases him, sometimes it stresses a serious theme, always it seeks to break the tension for the performer. Deaver recently changed the format of the conferences, arranging for Reagan to stride down a long red carpet to the waiting reporters. Reagan seemed uncomfortable with the De Gaulle-like staging, but Deaver, ever the calculating imagemaker, persuaded...
...famous diaries, which were widely published in facsimile editions, cover the period from 1966, when Guevara launched a guerrilla crusade in the South American jungle, to his ignominious death at the hands of Bolivian troops in October 1967. At the time, the handwritten diaries were displayed only briefly; Bolivian officials believe they may have been stolen some time between 1980 and 1982 from a shoebox kept inside a locked safe. Sotheby's, which has declined to identify the current owner, has estimated a value for the diaries that must have Guevara's spirit writhing in torment...
...response, a personal representative of Mitterrand's has arrived in Bourg St. Pierre (pop. 214) bearing a commemorative plaque and a handwritten letter from the President, thanking the village for the hospitality shown Napoleon. French officials said the matter had been resolved "in a warm and friendly way." Mayor Fernand Dorsaz accepted the plaque and letter as symbols of the debt's amicable settlement, and declared the matter "closed and settled-with a tinge of nostalgia...