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Although responsibility for the cafeteria attack remained unclear at week's end, Parisians suspected it was the work of the Committee for Solidarity with Arab Political Prisoners. The shadowy, Syrian-oriented terror group has claimed responsibility for the post office explosion and for at least eight other Paris bombings over the past nine months. The attacks have left three people dead and more than 100 wounded. Just a few days before the post office tragedy, the organization took responsibility for planting a 4-lb. bomb aboard a rush-hour commuter train. The device was discovered by a passenger and successfully...
...hijacker had a Syrian passport, a second a Bahrain passport, and a third Palestinian travel documents, said Pakistani intelligence officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. They said the nationality of the fourth hijacker was not known...
...door has apparently slammed shut on further official contacts between Israel and the Soviet Union. Neither country can expect much encouragement to pursue an accord. Moscow's Arab allies generally voiced skepticism that the talks would lead anywhere. When the meeting faltered, one Syrian official declared, "Moscow has not failed us." Even Israel's staunchest ally, the U.S., could not wholeheartedly embrace the dialogue. While the Reagan Administration hailed the talks as a "positive development," Washington is not eager to lose its role as the only superpower that seeks peace in the Middle East...
...problems, Iran under the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini seems increasingly confident and active. Earlier this month Tehran persuaded its partners in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to limit oil production and thus push up the price. Last week it received two high-level envoys from Syrian President Hafez Assad, the most influential power broker in the Arab world, who called the alliance between the two countries "invulnerable." Now Iran is negotiating with France for the return of $1 billion in Iranian funds that were frozen by Paris after the Ayatullah came to power...
...first reference. Thus we have Libyan-sponsored terrorism, Ping-Pong diplomacy, debt-laden Brazil and the two most popular hyphenated modifiers of the 1980s, "financially-troubled" and "financially-plagued," which can fairly be used to describe most Latin American nations, many banks and the United States Football League. The Syrian-backed P.L.O., an earlier hyphenated champion, had to be retired when the Syrian backers began shooting at the P.L.O. backs. Any dictator who leaves his homeland hastily, with or without his bullion and wife's shoe collection, is not fleeing in disgrace, merely heading into self-imposed exile...