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Harvard police would not comment yesterday on the raid...
...January on a trip to Aswan, that the Palestinians have the right "to participate in determination of their own future." He had adamantly opposed Carter's plan to sell advanced F-15 fighter-aircraft to Saudi Arabia. Washington officials were quite aware too that the Palestinian terrorist raid into Israel and the powerful Israeli retaliation in southern Lebanon had made Begin even less tractable. Nevertheless, the U.S. had hoped to keep Begin's mind focused on the need for overall peace negotiations and to persuade him that Israel had not yet responded adequately to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat...
...Walter Mondale and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance listened impassively. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski clutched a notebook tightly. Carter sympathetically cited "the recent cowardly and unjustified attack by terrorists on innocent civilians in Israel," but he quickly added a corrective hint that Israel might have overreacted, since the raid, he said, "has resulted in the loss of hundreds of lives and tens of thousands of people who are now homeless...
Begin rejected any such notion. He spoke of the Palestinian raid as "that unspeakable atrocity." It was, he said, "another reminder of what character is the implacable enemy" facing Israel...
...abducted, subjected to humiliating "people's trials," and then released. In 1974 came the first murders; one of the victims was the chief inspector of the antiterrorist squad in Turin. Curcio was arrested in September of that year, tried and imprisoned, then sprung in a daring 1975 commando raid led by his wife. A few months later, Comrade Mara was killed in a police Shootout. In 1976 Curcio was recaptured in a Milan apartment...