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...Berlin (blown up on March 29), an El Al jet en route from London to Tel Aviv with 360 aboard (saved by an alert El Al baggage inspector), and possibly the La Belle discotheque, also in West Berlin (destroyed on April 5, killing a U.S. Army sergeant and a Turkish woman and injuring 230). The prime suspects are two Syrian-trained Palestinian brothers, Achmed Nawaf Mansour Hazi and Nezar Nawaf Mansour Hindawi...
...Muslim. Now, nine years later, the singer of such hits as Moonshadow and Peace Train has just finished an eleven-day visit to Turkey from his home in London. "My records sold all over Europe, but I was not a man of show business," Stevens, now Yusuf Islam, told Turkish reporters. "I was feeling lost. But once I read the Koran I took refuge in the guidance of Allah. This took the place of secular things. All my concepts have changed." Indeed. Islam, 37, also chided those who let music take "the place of Allah...
...Gaddafi's foreign policy. Gaddafi in fact seems hardly to have met a terrorist he didn't like--or support. In addition to funding the radical fringes of Palestinian organizations, his hand and pocketbook have been seen behind Colombia's M-19 guerrillas, the Irish Republican Army and anti-Turkish Armenian terrorist groups. He offered sanctuary to the three surviving members of the Black September guerrillas who slaughtered eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games. Gaddafi has turned Libya into a kind of Palm Springs for despots and terrorists; he once provided a home for Idi Amin, as well...
...week these uncertainties stoked tensions toward a fever point. It began with American officials pointing a menacing finger of suspicion at Libya as instigator of the bombing of a West Berlin disco that left an American serviceman and a Turkish woman dead. Then the Pentagon cryptically noted that the Sixth Fleet, which had scattered after the Gulf of Sidra battle, was steaming back toward Libya. Almost simultaneously, President Reagan at his Wednesday-night news conference called Gaddafi "this mad dog of the Middle East" and proclaimed that the U.S. would "respond" whenever the perpetrator of a specific terrorist act could...
...early hours of Saturday morning, April 5. Then a bomb went off in La Belle disco in West Berlin, which was packed with off-duty American soldiers spending some of the pay they had collected earlier that night. U.S. Army Sergeant Kenneth Ford, 21, and a 28-year-old Turkish woman were killed; 230 people, 79 of them Americans, were injured...