Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chirac's sharp rhetoric last week reflected French indignation over the brutal wave of terrorist bombings in Paris that have left nine dead and 163 wounded since Sept. 8. The declared aim of the bombings, which have been claimed by the Committee for Solidarity with Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners (C.S.P.P.A.), is to force the release from prison of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, 35, a pro-Palestinian Marxist with roots in Lebanon's Maronite Christian community. The leader of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions (F.A.R.L.), a group that police say may be the same as the C.S.P.P.A., Abdallah is serving...
...least as old as the French custom of hospitality is the tradition of terrorism. In 1894 anarchists killed French President Sadi Carnot. During that era bombs exploded regularly in Parisian theaters, cafes, police stations and courts. After two obscure terrorists bombed the Chamber of Deputies, the president of that body waited for the smoke to clear, then said, "Gentlemen, the meeting continues." In the 1870s the Communards executed 60 hostages, including the Archbishop of Paris, Georges Darboy, during a two-month insurrection that took at least 20,000 lives. A century later the famed Middle East terrorist Carlos, also known...
...explosion outside Tati was the fifth terrorist bombing to hit the French capital in ten days. Only two days earlier, a violent blast in the driver's license section of Paris police headquarters had killed one and injured 51. Like that attack and others earlier at a post office, a cafeteria and a pub, the Tati outrage appeared to be the work of the Committee for Solidarity with Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners (C.S.P.P.A.). The shadowy organization, apparently made up of Marxist Maronite Christians and based in Lebanon, has claimed responsibility for ten Paris bombings over the past nine...
...down. The Pope nonetheless did his best to get a taste of past climbing days in Poland. At the Brenva Glacier he insisted on a solitary, blissful 20-minute stroll on the ice. On Mount Chetif (elevation 7,687 ft.), John Paul spoke briefly, decrying recent terrorist attacks in Karachi and Istanbul as "horrendous and almost unbelievable acts." Then, waving away helping hands with open irritation, he climbed unassisted down and up a narrow, rocky path to pray at a 13-meter-tall stone statue of Mary the Queen of Peace. Told that local villagers hike up from the valley...
...would oppose to the end any outcome. Some interested observers of this overture were candid and clear about the relationship between terrorism and peace, even a hint of peace: "Now," Royal Air Maroc stewards told a New York Times correspondent, "we will have to start worrying about hijackings and terrorist attacks." The fundamental fact of the Middle East today is that those who engage in terror do not want peace, and those who want peace are not engaged in terror. Those who make the slightest move to eliminate the vaunted root cause of terror -- i.e., those who genuinely seek...