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...extremists' attack in the Ankara airport, their first assault on Turkish soil since beginning their crusade, deeply shook the government. Four members of Turkey's five-man junta attended the solemn state funeral for three policemen and the airport manager who had been slaughtered in the action...
Turner has taken to championing the value of television news. "I'm here to serve as the communicator who gets people together," he proclaims. "I want to start dealing with issues like disarmament, pollution, soil erosion, population control...
...Ireland capital of Belfast. Said the cable: "The Irish Republican Army claims responsibility for today's bomb attack on members of the Household Cavalry. The Irish people have sovereign and national rights which no occupation force can put down." The I.R.A. action was the most dramatic on British soil since last October, when two persons were killed and 38 wounded in a similar bombing outside Chelsea Barracks. It was the most stunning incident of terrorism since the assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten, the Queen's cousin, when I.R.A. terrorists blew up his fishing boat in August 1979. Said...
Noon at the Palestinian cemetery. The air is unusually cool under trees that look like umbrellas. Photographs of the dead are planted over the graves instead of headstones. They look like yearbook pictures. Four new half-dug graves lie open in the red soil. The older ones are festooned with the kinds of ribbons used on candy boxes. A discarded stretcher lies off in a corner beside a green hospital mask. There is shelling to the south. Back at the Commodore a message comes through that Colonel Azmi is reported killed in Tyre. Is the boy Samer alive...
...play the leading role in working out a settlement of the complex diplomatic problems in Lebanon but also to help create the international peace-keeping force. Said a top U.S. official: "We still believe Begin means it when he says he wants to hold not a centimeter of Lebanese soil. But we also know damn well that the Israelis will never withdraw until they are satisfied with the force that fills the vacuum...