Word: syria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LONDON--Britain broke relations with Syria yesterday, charging that Syrian officials conspired with a Jordanian who was convicted hours earlier of trying to blow up an Israeli jumbo jet by smuggling a bomb on board in London...
Last July Prime Minister Peres of Israel flew to Morocco for peace talks with King Hassan II, and before anyone knew the contents of the negotiations, Syria broke off diplomatic relations with Morocco and the P.L.O. declared it would oppose to the end any outcome. Some interested observers of this overture were candid and clear about the relationship between terrorism and peace, even a hint of peace: "Now," Royal Air Maroc stewards told a New York Times correspondent, "we will have to start worrying about hijackings and terrorist attacks." The fundamental fact of the Middle East today is that those...
...Syria has little sympathy for either half of the peace envisioned in the West. Syria not only rejects the existence of an Israeli state, it has little use for a Palestinian state. Syria and its favorite Lebanese terror group, the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party, have a different vision. An Associated Press dispatch summarizes it nicely: "The secular SSNP seeks the merger of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, pre-Israel Palestine, Iraq, Kuwait and Cyprus" -- Cyprus! -- "into a Greater Syria...
...Nidal, a Palestinian who was the author of last December's Vienna and Rome airport massacres and may also be linked to the Karachi airport attack, concurs. "Syria for us is the mother country," he says. "For 2,000 years the Palestinians have not lived in an independent territory. Palestine of the future must be incorporated within Syrian territory...
Several Middle East governments, including Libya, Syria and Iran, have long been suspected of smuggling weapons and bombs for terrorists into Europe in sealed diplomatic bags, which according to tradition are not opened for inspection by the host country. Italy, a country hard hit by terrorism, last week announced a new policy: from now on all incoming diplomatic bags will be screened by metal detectors...