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...Palestinians. Of the six major organizations within the P.L.O., Habash's PFLP is the most likely to spearhead a resurgence of terrorism if Palestinians are not suitably represented at a Geneva peace conference. The PFLP is radically Marxist in ideology and seeks to overthrow conservative Arab regimes. Active membership: about 3,500 guerrillas. Terrorist exploits: skyjackings, bombings, an occasional tour de force such as the capture of more than 80 people who were held hostage in their Amman, Jordan, hotel rooms for two days in 1970 to dramatize the Palestinian plight...
...fabled Irish Republican Army in 1969 split into two wings: the Marxist "officials," who have temporarily gone underground, and the Provisionals, who carry on the struggle for Eire Nua (a New Ireland) on behalf of Ulster's Catholic minority. Since 1969 the Provos have killed 1,800, including 460 policemen or soldiers. But 1,000 Prove supporters are in jail, and the Ulster Catholics, who once idolized them, are weary of violence...
...Montoneros. Once a neo-Peronist youth group-the name means bushfighters-the Marxist Montoneros of Argentina were responsible for many of the random murders and kidnapings during the regime of Isabelita Perón. The military junta has mounted a countrywide war against these archetypal Latin American guerrillas, whose goal is to take over the government. At least 9,000 Montoneros have been killed or detained by police. But an estimated 12,000 remain at large, and their leaders-Mario Firmenich, Fernando Vaca Narvaja, Horacio Mendizabál-have close contacts with the Palestinians. The Montonero slogan: FATHERLAND OR DEATH...
...difficult to describe. The two branches of the organization, the Official IRA and the Provisional IRA, are hostile to British sovereignty for different reasons. The Officials, who claim to be the intellectual successors to the old IRA of the Irish Civil War or the '10s. have adopted a Marxist ideology, "forsworn" violence (though they have kept their guns), and oppose the British as part of a greater opposition to sectarianism and imperialism. The Provisionals have grown out of the present troubles, and their credo is the visceral hate of the British army, which they are actively fighting. Their slogans, which...
...P.L.O. is an example of Arab democracy gone wild. Its largest member organization, Arafat's Al Fatah, is frequently at odds with George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, whose Marxist cadre seeks to overthrow not only Israel but also conservative Arab governments like Saudi Arabia-Arafat's bankroller. Both Fatah and Habash's group have had bitter quarrels with four smaller but vociferous members of the P.L.O.-the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Popular Front-General Command (now split into pro-Iraq-Libya and pro-Syria factions...