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...terrorist attack was the third effort by Palestinians to infiltrate Israel within a week, and Israelis were enraged at the latest civilian deaths. At the funeral for the Nahariya victims, Premier Menachem Begin declared: "A fitting revenge for the murder of children has not been devised yet by the devil himself." Later he declared that the death penalty should be imposed against terrorists who use extraordinary cruelty. That penalty has not been used since Adolf Eichmann's execution...
Whoever was responsible, the incident may be a blessing in disguise for French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. The contract with Iraq was engineered in 1975 by then Premier Jacques Chirac, with Giscard's approval. The deal was kept secret until the following year. Then it was announced as a commercial agreement between several French companies and Iraq, rather than an accord between two nations, thus allowing the arrangement to escape an acrimonious debate in the French parliament. After Chirac's resignation in 1976, Giscard "began having second thoughts about the contract. He feared France...
...attack on Rome's Communist municipal administration. Whoever did the deed, the blast was only part of a surge in mayhem that has paralleled the campaigning for the June election that is to produce Italy's 42nd postFascist government. Since early April, after Christian Democratic Premier Giulio Andreotti's attempt to form another Cabinet was stillborn because the Communists refused to support it, Italy has been racked by new violence...
...first time since 1977, when student mobs rampaged through Rome, Autonomisti toughs have clashed with police in many cities. Their reappearance has been spurred by what Italian officials believe to be a break in the 1978 kidnap-killing of former Premier Aldo Moro. In coordinated raids in five cities, DIGOS squads arrested 22 suspected terrorists belonging to Autonomia Operaia (Workers Autonomy), one of the Autonomisti groups. Nine of the 22 were charged with involvement in the Moro case. The prize catch appeared to be one of the Autonomisti's leading theoreticians, Antonio Negri, 45. He is a soft-spoken...
...Autonomisti claimed that the police roundup of their members was orchestrated by Premier Andreotti's Christian Democrats to attract the law-and-order vote in the election. But the Communists, who have been anxious to dissociate themselves from Italy's nonstop terrorism, took a tough line against both the detained Autonomisti and reckless intellectuals in general. Ugo Pecchioli, a party spokesman, declared that responsibility for Italy's appalling level of terrorism-the toll already this year is 15 dead and 85 injured-lay not only with the bombers and assassins but also "with those who for years...