Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hijacking of Flight 73 was by no means the most protracted or lethal of the terrorist attacks that have plagued the world's airlines for more than 15 years. Over the long term, it will probably be less vividly remembered than last year's hijacking of TWA Flight 847 to Beirut, which lasted 17 days, even though that episode resulted in the death of only one passenger, vs. at least 17 on the Pan Am jet at Karachi. But the latest hijacking was particularly dispiriting, coming as it did after months of relative calm. Gradually, many government and airline officials...
...fought in Arafat's P.L.O. force in Lebanon in 1982. So the most likely theory was that last week's hijackers, though they carried passports from Bahrain, were members of Arafat's Fatah organization. Others, however, believed that Renegade Palestinian Abu Nidal, implicated in several of last year's terrorist outrages, might have been responsible...
...fanatics are warring Irish Catholics and Protestants, a half-century's resentment festering between them. They spike their drinks with faith baiting and engage, Casablanca-style, in fierce simultaneous renditions of Ave Maria and The Sash. By midnight one pensioner will suffer a fatal heart attack, an Ulster terrorist will be strangled by an old boyo, and two aged gents will duke it out in the men's room. Did we mention? No Surrender is a comedy...
...coincidence. The "Sea Wind" exercises with Egypt had been scheduled for two years, and the F-111s had flown into Britain for a previously planned NATO exercise. Speculation about U.S. intentions began with a Wall Street Journal report that the U.S. had evidence Gaddafi was plotting new terrorist acts and that it was ready to retaliate against him. In response, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes said the obvious: "We certainly have reason to believe that the Libyan state . . . has not forsaken its desire to create terrorist activities worldwide, and the capability is still there to do so." He also declared...
...statement was less a signal to Libya of imminent U.S. action than a reaffirmation of continuing policy toward Gaddafi. Although Western intelligence agencies believe they have detected new Libyan terrorist plots, the evidence is too sketchy to warrant military retaliation. Nevertheless, the President's advisers took the opportunity to remind the public, and Gaddafi, that contingency plans for Libya are always at hand...