Friday, April 11, 1986 Nation/World University Daily Kansan 9 Countries try fighting terrorism with terrorism The Associated Press PARIS— As the jetliner eased into its descent for Beirut airport, the long arm of the United States was waiting. Aboard the plane sat Hussein Ahat, a suspect in an alleged plot to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Rome. Authorities in Switzerland had just freed him in exchange for a Swiss diplomat who was kidnapped in Beirut. On the ground, readying a trap, waited a band of Lebanese gunmen dispatched by the United States to abduct the 21-year-old Shiite Muslim. If U.S. and Italian investigators could interrogate Athat, he might provide crucial information in the case against seven allied collaborators in the Rome plot. But as the young Lebanese stepped from the airplane, the plan fell apart. Heavily armed Shiites closed in on their comrade, and whisked him off to safety in chaotic Beirut. The January 1989 kidnapping attempt, recounted by a U.S. official who was deeply involved in the plan, helps illustrate the two-track approach — legal and extra-legal — governments are taking to deal with international terrorism. In interviews in Europe, the Middle East "There's a whole underworld at work out there," said a U.S. diplomat in the Middle East. "Israeli are killed here, Palestinian are killed here, and Israeli know what's going on. But it’s important." and the United States, security officials, diplomats and others said the anti-terrorist fight required international cooperation through treaties and intelligence-gathering and extradition agreements. On the legal level, governments are cooperating more closely on terrorism. The Interpol police network, with headquarters in Paris, may symbolize the change. But many officials, often speaking off the record, said extraordinary means may be just as essential. For years, the 138-nation cooperative did not transmit alerts for many terrorist crimes because of political overtones. But in October 1984, new guidelines extended Interpol's jurisdiction to terrorist attacks even if the motivations are political. The world community also has patched together a half-dozen anti-terrorism treaties since 1989, calling on governments to prosecute or extradite aircraft hijackers, aircraft saboteurs, hostage-takers and those who attack diplomats. But terrorists slip easily through this net of international agreements. Such countries as Iran and Lebanon, favorite destinations of skyjackers, either reject the treaties or ignore their obligations under the pacts. On the police level, officials publicly extol inter-governmental cooperation. Italian police, for example, make use of West Germany's anti-terrorist computer system. But in private the Europeans complain freely, especially about the French, who do not consider simple membership in an armed group as Italian and Western German law does. "If German terrorists feel they are in trouble, they take a vacation in France and we can't get them," said a high-ranking West German security official. Italian police say as many as 150 Red Brigade members and other wanted leftists in the city. Meanwhile, the Reagan administration expresses disappointment with all the West Europeans for not joining in U.S. economic sanctions against Libya for its alleged support of Palestinian terrorism. Such disputes will not be resolved soon. in Paris, a French Interior Minister, official said European laws will never be uniform. In Bonn, a West German diplomat said sanctions against Libya would provoke Arab retaliation. Several diplomats noted that the United States itself is not always cooperative – it will not, for one thing, exert its influence in Irish Republic Army terrorists to Britain Frustrated with the multilateral approach, the United States is turning toward single-handed tactics, which may include more Beirut-style kidnap attempts. Some tactics are pursued in bloody underground wars. The Senate has approved legislation that would make killing U.S. citizens abroad a U.S. crime pus ishable by death. Secretary of State George P. Shultz says he favors kidnapping such suspects on foreign soil if necessary, although it is a violation of international law. Diplomats in the Middle East trace a string of recent attacks to a vendetta between Israel's Mossad secret service and the Palestine Liberation Organization's elite Force 17. After Palestinian gunmen killed three Israelis in a Cyprus harbor in September, the PLO said the victims were Mossad agents. Israel denied it, but a well-placed West European diplomat said his government had since confirmed that the three were watching PLO sea operations for Mossad. In October, two Israeli seamen were murdered in Spain in another mysterious attack, and in January saboteurs blew up a Palestinian-owned hydrofloil ships in a Sicilian harbor, another apparent blow in a secretive maritime war. A new U.S. presidential task force said the answer lay in human assets spies within the system. Penetrating tiny European radical groups is almost impossible, however, and planting moles in the Palestinian movement has grown complicated since the PLO was scattered into exile by Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 In the end, the experts said, both diplomacy and force must be used against the terrorists. Yehekel Dror, a noted Israeli scholar on policy planning, said escalating terrorism would eventually shock countries into action. He foresees new international agreements outlawing atrocities, such as mass killings of uninvolved civilians, regardless of the motive. In a symbolically important step, the Soviet Union and United States in Dec. 18 supported a U.N. resolution condemning terrorist hostage-holding. The Latin American Film Festival presents: IRACEMA The adventures of Iracema on the Trans- Amazonian Highway and her discovery of the "new" Brazil. Portuguese with English subtitles Friday, April 11 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 13 3:30 p.m. Dyche Auditorium Free and Open to the Public ATTENTION COLLEGE GRADS Turner Chevrolet and GMAC Announce The Direct Lease Plan Lease Any New Chevrolet or Isuzu or Subaru New Car Prices Too High??? See The New Way To Buy A Car - No Previous Credit Required * No Down Payment * Low-Low Monthly Payments Call or See Jim Hodges Gala Performance and Reception 8:00 p.m. Friday, April 11, 1986 Performances 2:00 & 8:00 p.m. Saturday, April 12, 1986 Crafton-Preyer Theatre Tickets on sale in the Murphy Hall Box Office All seats reserved Friday's Gala Public $10.00 KU Students with ID/Senior Citizens $5.00 Saturday Public $6.00 KU Students with ID/Senior Citizens $3.00 For reservations, call 913/864-3982 VISA/MasterCard accepted for phone reservations The University Dance Company is partially funded by the KU Student Activity Fee Paid Advertisement Half price for KU Students TRAGEDY STRIKES SAE MURPHY FOUND DEAD At 13:15 a.m. this morning Paddy Murphy, SAE was found dead in front of a local bar. Local authorities were somewhat confused at the scene. It appeared that Paddy died of blood alcohol poisoning but tire tracks were also found on his body evident from what appeared to be burned rubber on his bottle and shirt sleeves. The police detectives were trying to determine which was the acute cause of death, a crime or a crash case. The two men were cleaning up around the bar when one man said he saw a car driving out of control toward Paddy. "Yea, this car was racin' back the street and flat out squished that Murphy guy right in front of the door of the bar. I sure hope the owner doesn't make me clean it up, it's a terrible mess." The other man was in shock but managed to identify the driver of the car. "It was that guy who played for Michigan State. He yelled something about, I'm going to jail without a national championship trophy and it's all that damn drunk Murphy's fault, he dies." Murphy's widow knows nothing about the tragedy as she left a bar with several members of a motor- gang and has yet to be located. The president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, when awaken at two o'clock this afternoon was quoted as saying, "we notified the national office to inform them of this tragedy. They were shocked to learn of Paddy's passing but said they would throw one half of a funeral bash in his honor. As for the Widow Murphy," the president said, "we have the whole house combing the town for her. We plan to start at the bars and work our way to every gutter in the town." Services will be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. The wake will immediately follow. Paid Advertisement $2.00 Woodruff Aud.