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Americans long viewed terrorist violence as something that happened to other people, over there. Then, last December, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded in the sky over Scotland, killing 259 people, including many U.S. citizens. Two months later, bookstores across the country received bomb threats for selling Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. And last month Sharon Rogers, a 50-year-old schoolteacher, narrowly escaped being blown up on a San Diego street as she drove to work...
Modern life seems ever more terrifying. A passenger jet explodes over Scotland. The wife of the captain of the U.S.S. Vincennes leaps out of her van an instant before a pipe bomb blows it up on a San Diego street. A Japanese Red Army terrorist, allegedly heading for a Navy recruiting station in Manhattan, is nabbed on the New Jersey Turnpike with shrapnel bombs. Bookstores in Berkeley are fire bombed for selling Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses...
Just what do governments owe the traveling public by way of warnings against possible terrorist attacks? A lot, say families of the victims killed when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown out of the sky over Scotland by a bomb on the night of Dec. 21. In the wake of new disclosures last week suggesting that authorities on both sides of the Atlantic had received several detailed and credible | alerts of a terrorist threat, many relatives want to know exactly what American and British transport officials knew -- and when they knew it. And then they want to know why nothing...
...bomb was intended as retribution for the Iran Airbus tragedy, it was probably not the first such act of revenge. Various Iranian groups claimed, and investigators now widely assume, that the explosive device that blew up Pan Am's Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December was also a retaliatory strike. That resulted in the death of 270 people, mostly Americans. The prevailing theory among investigators is that the plan to destroy Flight 103 originated among Iranian Revolutionary Guards and was carried out by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command...
After solitary confinement, the camaraderie is energizing. From memory Sutherland recites the poetry of his beloved Robert Burns, in the brogue of his native Scotland (he once played professional football with the Glasgow Rangers). Father Jenco takes the hostages on an imaginary tour of Rome and the Vatican. Anderson makes a deck of cards from paper scraps, and they all play cutthroat games of hearts...