Word: terrorist
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...armed forces staged virtually simultaneous attacks in the capital cities of Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana. The targets, according to a subsequent South African announcement, were operational bases and transit facilities of the exiled, outlawed African National Congress, which the government of State President P.W. Botha regards as a terrorist organization and black Africa considers a liberation movement...
...latest crisis was sparked by fresh allegations that Syria may have played a role in recent terrorist attacks in Europe and the Mediterranean, even though in the past the Assad government has consistently deplored such assaults against civilians. The charges, pressed by the Israelis but confirmed in some particulars by some Western intelligence agencies, link Syria with the recent attempt by a Jordanian-born Palestinian to plant a bomb aboard a London-Tel Aviv El Al flight with 360 passengers aboard. Evidence also surfaced that could tie the Syrians to a West Berlin explosion that destroyed the German-Arab Friendship...
Even more than the attacks in West Berlin, the close call at London's Heathrow Airport, where an alert Israeli security agent found an explosive device in the luggage of a terrorist's unsuspecting Irish girlfriend, raised questions about the war risks the Damascus regime may be willing to undertake --and about Assad's motives. Had the plane been destroyed, with hundreds of casualties, the tragedy would almost certainly have led to some kind of Israeli military response...
Police used water cannon and tear gas against 200 students, most of them white, at the University of Cape Town who carried placards that said, "Botha is a terrorist...
...South Africa will not allow the double standards and hypocrisy of the Western world...to stand in the way of our responsibilities to protect our country," he said. "The smugglers of terrorist arms into our country and murderers of innocent people must be hunted down...