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Fighting Fire With Fire
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CURRENT ISSUES
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3 / 1986 |
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Neil C. Livingstone
Neil C. Livingstone is an author, lecturer, and frequent
media commentator. He runs a crisis-management firm in
Washington, D.C., and has authored eight books on terrorism,
including Inside the PLO (Morrow). |
Perhaps it is a sign of the times. The first sentence diagramed in the new Harbrace College Handbook is "The hijacked plane has safely landed." Terrorism, it seems, is an all-pervasive feature of modern life, inescapable even in a college handbook on style.
Virtually every news magazine and wire service named terrorism as one of its top news stories in 1985, eclipsed only by the AIDS epidemic on some lists.
There is little promise of relief in 1986 with respect to international terrorism. Libya's erratic strongman, Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, has publicly declared that, if provoked, he will train and equip Arab guerrillas for "terrorist and suicide missions" against Israel and the United States.
Mohammed Abbas, the accused mastermind of the Achille Lauro hijacking, allegedly told a western reporter that he plans to hold a secret conference of "revolutionary forces" to develop a global strategy for waging war against the United States in 1986.
The so-called Islamic Jihad similarly has vowed to intensify its "holy war" against the U.S. Add to this increased attacks in recent months against U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) targets by European terrorists, and trepidation by authorities in this country that Central American violence may soon spill over into U.S. cities.
Nevertheless, despite widespread public concern over international terrorism, many observers are asking whether it isn't becoming a little like the weather: something
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