Word: terrorist
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...visible as this. People tend to register the things that are visible. But the fact is that through the development of better intelligence and of very good intelligence exchange--I might say $ outstanding with the Italians, for example--we have uncovered, prevented or aborted some 90 terrorist incidents in the last year...
...possible retaliation against the U.S. I haven't noticed any reluctance to take on the U.S., so no doubt there will be people in the terrorist ranks who are stimulated by this, but they don't seem to need very much stimulation. I don't think that we should hesitate to bring people to justice for criminal acts for fear that some other criminals may not like it and try to do something about...
...dismembered bodies, and the government-owned daily La Presse described the raid as "the blind barbaric terrorism of the Israeli state." But what really angered Bourguiba was the Reagan Administration's enthusiastic endorsement of the Israeli action, which White House Spokesman Larry Speakes described as a "legitimate response" to "terrorist attacks." President Reagan declared that Israel and other nations have the right to strike back "if they can pick out the people responsible." He added that he had "great faith in Israel's intelligence capabilities" on that score...
...Cairo only the previous day after what he had regarded as a successful trip to Washington, denounced the raid as a "horrible criminal operation" that posed "a major blow to peace efforts." Argued Mubarak: "If we counter terror with terror, we are going to have an endless chain of terrorist operations." Mubarak's prediction appeared to have been borne out by the news from Beirut that an Islamic fundamentalist group had announced that it intended to "execute" an American hostage, U.S. Embassy Political Officer William Buckley, in retaliation for the Israeli raid (see following story...
...full account of the fact that terrorism by the P.L.O. has never really stopped, it accurately reflected the anger engendered in many quarters by the Israeli raid. Symbolic of the prevailing mood was a State Department advisory to its missions throughout the world last week: Be on guard against terrorist attacks...