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...were only too well aware that they were now in the front lines of a new war of terror between Israelis and Palestinians. Israel's intelligence service warned that Black September-the Arab terrorist group responsible for the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich-planned at least ten new operations in the Middle East and Europe. In Brussels, SHAPE headquarters similarly told Europeans to expect more terror. What could be done about it? Not much; the enemy was within...
...Munich raid was only the most dramatic example of Arab terrorism in Europe. There were assassination attempts in London last year on a Jordanian ambassador and an Iraqi ex-Premier. In The Netherlands, the parents-in-law of Andre Spitzer, one of the Olympians slain at Munich, received a stream of telephone calls threatening the lives of Spitzer's widow and baby daughter. Eventually, Israeli security agents had to help the Spitzers leave the country secretly. Only France seems to have been spared such incidents, presumably because Arab terrorists do not wish to embarrass a government that is supplying...
Israel last week declared a new war on the Arabs. It will be fought on a "farflung, dangerous and vital front line," Premier Golda Meir grimly told the Knesset, "with all the assiduity and skill of which our people are capable." Thus last week, in the aftermath of the Munich murders, the Israeli government vowed to carry the war of terrorism back to the Arabs-guerrillas and host countries alike-and to strike at times and places of Israel's own choosing...
Parker dodged comparisons in Munich, but he possessed a kind of quiet confidence about U.S. chances as the Games drew nearer. "We had had inklings in Hanover that we had a boat capable of getting some speed," Parker said last week, "but it wasn't until we got to Germany that we discovered what we could really...
...while swamping world power New Zealand by two full lengths. The Americans had arrived and, in a little under six minutes actual racing competition, were being hailed as "the fastest boat to come out of the U.S. in ten years," and odds-on favorites to strike Olympic gold at Munich...