Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exactly a terrorist act, but in a week filled with political violence, it raised fresh concerns about the security of U.S. officials. Edward Doster, 20, a former Maryland racetrack stable boy, showed his dependent's pass at State Department headquarters and was allowed to enter without putting his gym bag through metal detectors. Upon reaching the seventh-floor "corridor of power," he went into a men's room and assembled a rifle from the bag's contents. Then he confronted his mother Carole, 44, a secretary in the office of State Department Counselor Edward Derwinski. After an exchange of words...
Instead, the incident must be seen for what it was, a blatantly anti-Semitic act. We must not let the Shiite terrorists succeed in weakening relations between the U.S. and Israel, its most faithful ally in the region and possibly in the world. Despite common knowledge that the 766 Shiite POWs, captured by Israel after committing terrorist acts during its withdrawal from Lebanon, would be released promptly, the Shiites nevertheless preempted the release. In a perfectly planned hijacking, the Shiites cleverly took advantage of Israel's position by pitting it against the U.S., all the while feigning concern...
...well that a stalemated situation, a situation which ruled out the use of military force if the lives of the hostages were to be preserved, would only be to their advantage as Americans witnessed Israel's necessary resolve to stand firm to the Shiite demands. The hijacking, and other terrorist actions in recent years, were designed to help dissolve long-term cooperation between the Americans and Israeli Jews, the enemy people of Moslem extremists...
...CERTAIN extent, this and similar terrorist actions have succeeded in dividing America. In 1979, too many critics of President Carter charged that support for the Shah of Iran and lack of respect for religious beliefs in that country had alienated the Moslem faction, percipitating the Irannian hostage crisis. In 1985, critics are charging that unflagging support for Israel has given Middle Eastern religious sects no means save terrorism in their struggle for freedom. These critics often characterize American involvement in the region as motivation for the violence there. Nothing could be further from the truth...
...planned as a day of celebration, with West European dignitaries, including seven Prime Ministers, present to witness the signing ceremonies for Spain's entry into the European Community. But before the festivities began, the day was marred by Basque terrorist attacks that left four dead and eight injured. The violence was believed to be an attempt by the terrorist group ETA to publicize its goal of independence for the semiautonomous Basque region. In a wave of assaults over the past six weeks, ETA has murdered 14 people and wounded...