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...latest act of violence by Palestinian guerrillas took place on the anniversary of the Munich massacre, in which members of a fedayeen organization called Black September killed eleven Israeli athletes during the Olympic Games. The embassy episode was perpetrated by a splinter group called Al 'Iqab (the Punishment), which even the Palestine Liberation Organization in Beirut professed not to know about...
Despite the threatening tone of their words, the Punishment terrorists at first seemed intent on avoiding bloodshed, and in fact went out of their way to announce that they "did not want to be another Munich...
Colors, particularly, have "a decisive influence on the child's mental performance," says Henner Ertel, director of Munich's Gesellschaft für Rationelle Psychologie, where researchers have been studying the impact of environment on mental growth since 1970. Indeed Ertel and his co-workers found that the proper selection of colors could instantly raise the average IQs of a random sample of 473 children by twelve points. This was accomplished merely by testing the children in rooms that were painted light blue, yellow, yellow-green or orange-colors the children said they thought were "beautiful...
...England; he believed that 1917 had ended, not begun, the pattern of world wars. The Bavarian relatives whom Augustine visited for a while reflected the social and psychological disarray of Germany in the early 1920s. The concluding set piece of Hitler's abortive 1923 beer-hall putsch in Munich suggested the tidal pull of events in which all the characters were destined to be caught...
...agony and outrage over the murder of its athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, the Israeli government organized a 15-man group of killers to liquidate the leadership of Black September. As Prime Minister Golda Meir bluntly announced: "We would do all we could to strike at the terrorist organizations and their bases wherever we could reach them." In a series of chillingly executed missions, the counter-terror squad has since gunned down at least 13 Arab conspirators in such cities as Paris, Rome, London, Stockholm and Beirut. The team has also aborted, by its estimate, 37 plots against Israel...