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...diagram). U.S. military planners say that small neutron warheads installed on howitzer shells or Lance missiles, which have ranges of 20 and 70 miles, respectively, are the best way to deter or counter the most feared conventional attack by Soviet forces: a massive tank assault across Central Europe. (Warsaw Pact countries have 44,000 tanks compared with NATO'S 11,000.) Said the President: "This weapon was particularly designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the Western front." The Reagan Administration plans to stockpile the neutron bombs in the U.S. But they could...
When the standoff began in downtown Warsaw, anger started to surge in the crowd. Shouted one militant through a loudspeaker: "We face the threat of bloodshed on the streets." But then, as thousands of workers, housewives, students and children gathered to cheer on the demonstrators, the scene changed unpredictably and took on a carnival-like atmosphere, resembling a California "happening" of the 1960s more than a dangerous political confrontation in one of the Communist world's major capitals...
...meeting with President Reagan in Washington, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat intended to visit Salzburg, one of his favorite cities. But suddenly last week, with no explanation, he canceled his trip. Four days before, a Palestinian guerrilla named Mohammed Daoud Mohammed Auda was shot while sitting in a Warsaw hotel café, but survived. The two incidents reflected the violent and convoluted world of the terrorist, where motives are often murky and alliances shift rapidly. Indeed, intelligence experts believe that the week may also have marked the reappearance, after seven years, of Black September, the notorious band of Palestinian...
Last week another deadly melodrama was taking place in Warsaw. The central figure was Mohammed Daoud Mohammed Auda, 44, also known as Abu Daoud, who has been accused of participating in two of Black September's most famous operations: the Olympic attack and, in 1973, the murder of two U.S. diplomats in Khartoum. Abu Daoud was sitting at a table in the second-floor cafe of Warsaw's Victoria Inter-Continental Hotel last week when a young man suddenly appeared and hit him with five pistol shots. Abu Daoud was seriously wounded; the assailant escaped...
...bloc country where infiltration and escape would be so difficult for the hit man. The attack could also have been the work of Abu Daoud's enemies within the Palestinian guerrilla movement, where motives are always obscure. Or, confounding all the experts, it could even have been, as Warsaw rumor had it, merely an affair of the heart...