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...rise of Jewish terrorism. Members of the Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service, arrested seven U.S. citizens and subsequently detained four of them on suspicion of complicity in the attack on the Palestinian laborers. The four detainees were later identified as active members of the ultra-nationalist Kach movement, led by Meir Kahane, founder of the U.S.-based Jewish Defense League. In another raid, Israeli police arrested three fundamentalist Jews who reportedly confessed to involvement in an abortive attempt last January to blow up Jerusalem's two most important Islamic shrines, the Al-Aqsa mosque...
...Alvaro Magaña at a lunch attended by the six candidates in the presidential race. Among them were the two front runners: former President José Napoleón Duarte, a Christian Democrat appreciated in Washington for his moderation, and Roberto d'Aubuisson, leader of the ultrarightist Nationalist Republican Alliance. D'Aubuisson has been accused of being linked to the right-wing death squads that have killed thousands of people in the country over the past four years; in a deliberate show of disapproval, the State Department last November denied him a visa to visit...
Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.). Along the highway leading out of the capital of San Salvador, trees are beribboned with the red-white-and-blue emblems of D'Aubuisson's Nationalist Republican Alliance, known by its Spanish acronym of ARENA. Sidewalk intersections are spray-painted with the green fish symbol of ARENA'S chief rival in the eight-party presidential race, the centrist Christian Democrats led by Jose Napoleon Duarte. On El Salvador's four television channels, political advertisements exhort voters to choose the man among the many who can save the country...
Economic issues were, however, overshadowed by matters of security during last week's talks. At the close, a joint statement on "good neighborly relations" suggested that Mozambique would prevent the black nationalist African National Congress from attacking South Africa from within its borders, while South Africa would not aid and abet the M.N.R. But good intentions alone may not be enough to dispel old enmities...
Being an outpost of the Turkish empire meant being of interest to the Hapsburgs' Austro-Hungarian empire, which annexed the whole region known as Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1878. The Hapsburgs' new subjects resented them, and many put their nationalist hopes on the neighboring kingdom of Serbia...