Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...start, Reagan was full of defiance about the sale of U.S. missiles to Iran. That effort, obviously aimed at winning the release of American hostages in Lebanon, had been an embarrassing violation of his repeated pledges never / to negotiate with terrorist regimes, but Reagan simply denied it. "We did not -- repeat, did not -- trade weapons or anything else for hostages," he said. After a three-month investigation, however, a presidential review board headed by former Texas Senator John Tower found that the "initiative became in fact a series of arms-for-hostages deals...
...Arab neighbors. Jordan's King Hussein, on a state visit to Moscow, declared that the riots represent a "natural and real response of the Palestinian people," while Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah professed pride in the "struggle of the brotherly Palestinian people." There were calls for new terrorist attacks from Israel's neighbors. On Friday evening three Arab raiders, members of Abu Abas' Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, heeded that call and crossed into Israel from the upper Jordan Valley. They were apprehended after a brief fire fight...
...studios the war is sneaking ever closer. At first it is not much more than a remote rumor to these civilians in uniform, a telex clattering more and more bad news that the censors will not let them report. But soon there is terrorism in Saigon's streets, a terrorist in Adrian's life, even terror in his heart when a reportorial mission in the field goes awry. Both compassion and panic invade his routines. Director Barry Levinson (Diner, Tin Men) has always been good at wiring comic asides to a delay fuse, but this entire movie works on that...
...First Secretary at France's embassy in Tehran, Paul Torri, wearing a tweed sport coat and a scarf against the cold, was in the Falcon en route to Paris. Within 30 minutes, Wahid Gordji, former interpreter at the Iranian embassy in Paris and a suspected member of a terrorist network that killed 13 people and wounded 160 in a wave of bombings last year in France, was also airborne, heading for Tehran...
...Palestine-General Command, a P.L.O. splinter group based in Damascus, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was an effort "to revive the armed struggle" against the Jewish state. Israeli officials said they have known for several years that the group's leader, Ahmed Jibril, was training hang-glider terrorist squads in Syria. Israeli Deputy Chief of Staff Major General Ehud Barak vowed that Jibril's organization "will in due time pay the price" for its murderous mission...