Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Haunted by the memory of the Munich Games in 1972, when members of the Palestinian Black September Movement invaded the Olympic Village and killed eleven Israeli athletes, the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee (L.A.O.O.C.) has taken special measures to protect the teams' living quarters. At two of the three Olympic Villages-on the campuses of the University of Southern California and the University of California at Los Angeles - the committee has erected three concentric rings of eight-foot-high mesh fence. The middle one is wired with intrusion-detection devices, installed by the Pentagon, that sends out an alarm...
...recent years, colleges around the country have seen a steady increase in loud, disruptive heckling at public speeches on campus. Harvard has been no exception; in the last two years talks here by the Rev. Jerry Falwell, a Palestinian Liberation Organization spokesman and, most recently, Secretary of Defense Capser W. Weinberger '38 have all been interrupted by aggressive hecklers...
...attack on open debate come only from outside the ivory tower. In the past year-and-a-half, bands of hecklers have threatened the free speech not only of Weinberger, but also of the Rev. Jerry Falwell and a representative of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Muhammed Kenyatta, a Black student leader at the Law School, conversely abridged the rights of participants at a talk by a P.L.O. member when he refused to recognize Jewish members of the audience during the question-and-answer period...
Another prickly issue is the situation in southern Lebanon. Occupying Israeli forces last week flexed their muscles briefly as tanks and troop carriers surrounded the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el Hilweh, near Sidon, in a hunt for weapons and explosives. Two people were injured when Israeli troops opened fire, and a house was destroyed as the Israelis arrested about 30 residents. The camp was also the scene of escalating clashes between supporters of the P.L.O. and Ein el Hilweh's 30-member national guard, a local Palestinian militia organized and armed by the Israelis...
...least the past dozen years. The Los Angeles Games will be the fifth in a row marred by politics. The unhappy sequence began with riots outside and a black-power salute by U.S. athletes inside the 1968 Games in Mexico City and the massacre of Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Games in Munich. It continued in 1976 with the boycott at the Olympiad in Montreal by black African nations that had unsuccessfully tried to get New Zealand expelled because one of its rugby teams had toured South Africa (which was barred from the Olympics after...