Word: laqueur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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GUERRILLA by WALTER LAQUEUR 462 pages. Little, Brown...
...Historian Walter Laqueur, the terror elite works like a multinational corporation. "An operation," he writes, "would be planned in West Germany by Palestine Arabs, executed in Israel by terrorists recruited in Japan with weapons acquired in Italy but manufactured in Russia, supplied by an Algerian diplomat, and financed with Libyan money...
Many question why the U.S. should be so eager to help the Russians catch up economically and technically. European critics contend that American corporations have been pressured by the Nixon Administration to give invaluable information to the Russians. "It was a giveaway of technology," says Walter Laqueur, director of London's Institute of Contemporary History. "It induced American industrialists to make their technology available for nothing or for a symbolic price. I do not mean agriculture or pharmacology either. I mean things that could be helpful to the [Soviet] army and space programs...
...minute's fuel remained in the plane's tanks. On the ground, the Arabs were adamant that the 727 be refueled for the flight to Libya, and announced that plane and occupants would be blown up unless it was done. Unable to contact his foreign office, Kurt Laqueur, Bonn's consul general in Zagreb, agreed to the refueling. "I didn't want to play with the lives of the passengers," he explained later...