Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moderate. The principal fedayeen rebel is Sabry Khalil Bana, 40, whose code name Abu Nidal means Father of the Struggle; he heads a dissident Palestinian group known as Black June, after the month in 1976 when Syrian forces invaded Lebanon and fought the Palestinians. Abu Nidal, whose terrorist credentials include a 1973 attack on a Pan Am jet at Rome's Fiumicino Airport in which 34 people died, is under a P.L.O. death sentence for disobeying orders. Last week's series of attacks suggested that the P.L.O. intends to wipe out Abu Nidal and strike back...
...ZANU) and the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU), headed by Joshua Nkomo, appear to be aimed at new targets. Both black and white moderates have become priority victims?a tactic apparently intended to shatter the country's already sagging morale. In one of the most gruesome of such recent terrorist incidents, 39 black moderates of Sithole's faction who had been sent into the bush to convince dissidents that the transition was working were captured and executed; their bodies were then laid out by the guerrillas in a grisly line at the side of the road as a warning...
...reported corruption which has plagued the Christian Democrats' rule for the past 30 years, the diverse host of culpable villains (or heroes, depending of course on one's perspective) has unrest and a disturbing wave of terrorist kidnapping, murder, and sabotage. A large and diverse host of culpable villains (or heroes depending of course on one's perspective), has emerged, including such notables as Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer, Pope Paul VI, Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli, prominent Mafia chieftains, and Brigate Rosse revolutionaries. Both the American CIA and Kremlin officials have also been charged...
...most immediate progress came on noneconomic issues. Japanese Premier Takeo Fukuda popped a surprise idea for an agreement among the Seven that would sever airline traffic with any nation encouraging or harboring terrorist hijackers. The proposal passed unanimously...
...camera she has been a double agent in Marathon Man and a Palestinian terrorist in Black Sunday. Off the set, Swiss-born Marthe Keller is a homebody who has just finished furnishing a Manhattan apartment and plans to settle in New York City. "Some day I would like to play a nice American girl," she says. First, she is off to Europe, where she has the title role in the movie Lulu, yet another adaptation of the Frank Wedekind play about a German seductress compelled to destroy the lives of her lovers. "Lulu is decadent and perverse...