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...outrage that the police raid provoked among residents had a familiar ring. During the search of a black household in London's Brixton area last month, an officer shot a woman, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. That shooting touched off a night of riots...
...Hussein and P.L.O. Leader Arafat agreed last February to work together to get Middle East peace talks moving again, Mubarak has hoped to bring Israel and Jordan to the negotiating table. That hope was dealt a rude blow two weeks ago, when Israel launched a 1,500-mile bombing raid on Arafat's P.L.O. headquarters near Tunis...
...above the fray, his aides made no changes in his public schedule. Thursday morning the President traveled to Chicago to continue his uphill battle for tax reform. On the way to Andrews Air Force Base, he told a staffer that the U.S. had been prepared to launch a military raid on the Achille Lauro to rescue the hostages. The President seemed personally chagrined that the hijackers had been whisked off the ship, foreclosing the rescue mission...
While that judgment did not take full account of the fact that terrorism by the P.L.O. has never really stopped, it accurately reflected the anger engendered in many quarters by the Israeli raid. Symbolic of the prevailing mood was a State Department advisory to its missions throughout the world last week: Be on guard against terrorist attacks...
...other communiques from the shadowy Islamic Jihad, the chilling message arrived in a brown paper envelope at the offices of the Beirut newspaper An- Nahar. American Hostage William Buckley, said a long typewritten statement, had been "tried and executed" to avenge the Palestinians and Tunisians killed in the Israeli raid on Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters in Tunis. Buckley, 57, was a political officer at the U.S. embassy when he was kidnaped on his way to work on March...