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...that could intensify the lethal Middle East cycle of terrorism, retaliation and counterretaliation. Non-Government analysts fear Iran would take American lives in revenge, and not just in the Middle East. "If we hit Iran, there is certain to be terrorism in the U.S.," says Robert Kupperman, co-author of the respected book Terrorism: Threat, Reality, Response. There are thousands of Iranians in the U.S., Kupperman notes, and the Ayatullah Khomeini has among them "a network in place which could respond almost immediately...
...Israeli commando raid on Entebbe in 1976, the Dutch army's storming of a hijacked commuter train in 1977, the West German assault at Mogadishu, Somalia, four months later and the British commando rescue at the Iranian embassy in London in 1980. Says U.S. Antiterrorism Expert Robert Kupperman: "Right after Mogadishu and the Dutch train incident, the world became convinced that Western governments would risk killing everybody if they have...
Many Third World countries lack the military expertise for such operations. Kupperman suggests that Pakistan, for instance, might have used outside mercenaries. Wilkinson goes further, calling for an "international hostage rescue force" that would counter terrorists round the globe...
...coziness, sources say, will be a sharp reduction of the size of the NSC from its current staff of 25, and the presence of conservative co-members such as Frank Lilley, an Asian specialist formerly with the CIA, and defense advisers William R. Van Cleave and Charles Kupperman...
While reiterating Reagan's stated positions, his aides were unclear this week as to what specific actions the President-elect would take after taking office on January 20. Reagan's "number-one priority" will be his goal of a million-man reserve, defense adviser Charles Kupperman said, though he added, "I know he wants to give the all-volunteer force a chance to succeed." Pipes called an executive order to terminate registration "logical but not terribly practicable" and "a very wrong signal to the Russians...