Word: nidal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those are only the non-lethal problems. Saddam's close ties to terrorist groups -- Abu Nidal is just one Baghdad favorite -- could put U.S. citizens at risk everywhere. And then there are the hostages, 3,500 Americans held against their will in Iraq and Kuwait. Of all the potential political threats to Bush, this is the greatest. The sight of yellow ribbons, already a staple of the evening news, will fester like an open wound. Terrified of the nightmare that doomed Jimmy Carter's presidency, the White House is straining to avoid the H word. To no avail, of course...
Ordinarily, the freeing of hostages is cause for celebration. But when a Frenchwoman, her Belgian companion and their young daughter were released last week after being held for 2 1/2 years by Abu Nidal's Fatah-Revolutionary Council, a Libyan-backed militant organization, there were as many questions as cheers...
Current clients include India, China, Cuba, Viet Nam, Syria, Iran and, biggest of all, Muammar Gaddafi's Libya. A large-scale purchaser on its own, Libya has long been known to be a conduit for Czechoslovak-made arms to such terrorist groups as Abu Nidal's Fatah Revolutionary Council, Italy's Red Brigades and the Irish Republican Army...
...moral judgment must take into account the alternative. Israel cannot stand alone, and if it is abandoned by its friends for not meeting Western standards of morality, it will die. What will replace it? The neighbors: Syria, Jordan, the P.L.O., Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Ahmed Jabril, Abu Nidal (if he is still around) or some combination of these -- an outcome that will induce acute nostalgia for Israel's human-rights record...