Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...groin safe from an assault, swift and agonizing") and the conspiratorial plotting are stock Ludlum. So is the hero, Jason Bourne. Readers of The Bourne Identity (1980) will recognize him as the cover name for David Webb, the American Orientalist who was used to lure Carlos, the international terrorist known as the Jackal...
...shunned the country after Sadat signed the 1979 peace treaty with Israel. But he has been less successful at home. Egypt's already shaky economy continues to suffer setbacks. Even before hotels were attacked last week, the hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro last October and other terrorist incidents in the region had caused a severe drop in tourism, which brought an estimated $700 million into Egypt in the last fiscal year...
...national alert, and stepped up patrols at border crossings. It was the largest manhunt in Sweden's history, but as the week began, no arrests had been made. Police speculated that the murder might have been committed by any number of disaffected groups, from Croatian nationalists to West German terrorist factions...
...began with a bang and seems likely to end with a whimper. The bang: the gunshots fired at Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, by Turkish Terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca. The whimper: Italian Prosecutor Antonio Marini's recommendation last week that three Bulgarian defendants charged with complicity in the attack be acquitted on the technical ground of "insufficient evidence." If the court heeds Marini's advice when it hands down its verdict this month, the result will be a stunning blow to the * "Bulgarian Connection" theory, which maintained that Bulgarian intelligence services organized the papal attack...
...spokesman for Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat. In the Syrian capital of Damascus, the P.L.O. faction known as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the shooting. In Paris, however, a telephone caller to a Western news agency claimed responsibility for the shadowy terrorist organization headed by the notorious Abu Nidal...