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...this year was an explosion, either a genuine hand bomb or a "leaflet bomb" that flings handbills in the air. It occurred at the edge of Plaza Barrios where an estimated 50,000 mourners were gathered for the outdoor service for the archbishop. Armed leftist militants, primed for possible rightist provocation, apparently panicked at the blast and began firing wildly, sending the crowd surging toward the sanctuary of the cathedral. Some witnesses claimed that gunfire also came from soldiers in the government's National Palace across the square...
Even by the peculiar standards of contemporary terrorism, M-19 stands out as a bizarre and incoherent group. It began in 1970 as a rightist movement supporting former Military Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, who ruled Colombia from 1953 to 1957. The strongly nationalist organization gradually incorporated leftists; its current ranks, according to a U.S. intelligence report, include Castroite, Guevarist, Maoist and Trotskyite revolutionaries...
...Andrei Gromyko flew to Damascus to shore up relations with Syrian President Hafez Assad, who could use the Kremlin's help to cope with his troubles. Assad's nine-year-old regime, dominated by the minority Alawite sect, has been challenged for its repression and corruption by rightist Muslims; relations with neighboring Iraq have deteriorated, and Syria was the only major Arab state that stayed away from the Islamabad summit...
...latest mayhem brought the death toll from two years of extremist violence in Turkey to more than 2,500. Eight to ten people have been killed each day since Demirel, 55, became Premier. The combatants in the daily armed street battles are from both extremes. On one side are rightist gangs like the "Gray Wolves," often associated with the National Action Party, an ultraconservative group. On the other are the more numerous leftist, often campus-based, organizations such as the Marxist-Leninist Armed Propaganda Squad and the Turkish Workers and Peasants Liberation Army. There have also been signs, some...
Even in this grim area, rational distinctions must be made. Is there justification for calling the Shah a criminal and treating him as one? If so, the same would have to apply to scores of other rulers, rightist or leftist. Moreover, Iran, like many developing countries, has never known any really free institutions. And cruelty, by whatever regime, has always been a fact of life there and in many other countries the U.S. must live with. These considerations do not exonerate the Shah, but they must be kept in mind by the U.S. as it tries to cope with...