Wednesday, April 9, 1986
Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
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Western Europe's terrorist left wages campaign
The Associated Press
WIESBADEN, West Germany — the armies of Western Europe's terrorist left are rising again in a new generation, waging an anti-NATO campaign that may enlist more and more dissident youth, say police and other security experts.
A decade of police successes and tough anti-terrorist laws have not stopped the continent's urban guerilla movement.
"Time and again, they have come back," said Heinz Doehla, an antiterrorist specialist with the West German federal police.
And this time West Germany's Red Army Faction and other European terrorists are returning together in a brotherhood authorities now trace to a 1981 terrorist gathering in Paris.
by narrowing their focus to NATO, the extremists may actually broaden their appeal by aligning themselves with millions of young West Europeans who have demonstrated against U.S.-NATO missile deployment plans.
In Italy, where the Red Brigades assassinated judges, police officials and former Premier Aldo Moro, authorities say a key to catching terrorists were new laws allowing plea
In West Germany, advanced police work paid off. The Federal Criminal Office put special anti-terrorist detectives into the field and developed impressive computer files tying together incidents, people, weapons and methods.
bargaining for terrorists who informed against comrades. About 1,250 Red Brigades members and other terrorists are now in jail.
Today, more than 30 hard-core members of the Red Army Faction, which never numbered more than a few dozen, are imprisoned. Others have fled abroad.
But despite the law-enforcement
Ferdinando Imposimat, an Italian magistrate long involved in the antire terrorist, fight, dates the current wave to 1981.
victories, new generations of militants are taking the field.
James L. Dozier, a U.S. Army brigadier general, was kidnapped by the Red Brigades in Italy on Dec. 17, 1981, and was rescued in a police raid 42 days later.
By then, the first French terrorist group, Direct Action, had appeared. And in October 1984, Belgian terrorists calling themselves the Fighting Communist Cells began planting bombs.
In January 1985, a joint statement by Direct Action and the Red Army Facton declared they would together attack the multinational structures of NATO.
Soon after, assassins killed the general in charge of French arms sales and a West German defense industrialist. Last Aug. 8, two Americans were killed in a bomb blast at a U.S. air base in Frankfurt, an attack for which the two groups claimed joint responsibility. That was followed by the bombing of a U.S. anti-aircraft missile site and other targets.
The French and German terrorists
have used explosives stolen from a Belgian quarry, indicating a connection with Belgium's Fighting Communist Cells, which itself has bombed NATO pipelines and defense-related companies.
The Americans respect their unseen enemy.
Altogether, the central armed units of the major German, Italian, French and Belgian groups probably total fewer than 100 people, investigators say. But their small size makes them difficult to penetrate.
"The RAF has been gaining experience, getting bolder," said an Air Force security officer.
Car bomb explosion kills 10 in Lebanon
The Associated Press
JOUNIEH, Lebanon — A car bomb exploded in the main square of this Christian port while it was packed with lunch-hour crowds yesterday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 110.
"The blue BMW sedan blew up only 50 yards from offices of President Amin Gemayel's Phalange Party. It set 25 cars ablaze and damaged buildings 500 yards away. It was the latest in a series of bombings in Christian areas since mid-January.
Prime Minister Rashid Karami, a Sunni Muslim opposed to the Maronite Catholic president, called the Jounieh bombing treacherous.
Youssef Bitar, the top police explosives expert, said about 165 pounds of explosives were packed inside the sedan. It blew up at a police station when it caught fire. Police said 12 churned bodies were pulled.
from the rubble of two high-rise office buildings that took the brunt of the blast. They house banks, beauty parlors, clinics and shopping precincts.
Water pipes were ripped open, flooding the glass-strewn square where rescuers dug through the rubble looking for survivors.
Police said 10 charred bodies were pulled
Jumpy Christian militiamen, fearing more bombs, fired bursts from automatic rifles and several rocket-propelled grenades into the air to clear paths for ambulances.
Police say about 1,190 people have been killed and more than 2,500 wounded this year.
Jounieh, 13 miles north of Beirut, is the main Christian outlet to the Mediterranean. It generally has been spared violence during 11 years of civil war. Most bombings of Christian targets have been aimed at offices of Gemavel's party in Christian East Beirut.
No one claimed responsibility for the Journie blast, which is usual in bombings in
Christian areas. The Phalange has blamed loyalists of Elie Hobeika, Gemayel's main Christian rival, for earlier bomb attacks.
Syria supports Hobeika, whose militiamen were defeated by Gemayel's forces in a daylong battle Jan. 15, that cost hundreds of lives.
In another incident, Lebanon's state radio reported that a suicide bomber in South Lebanon drove an explosives-laden car into a checkpoint manned by Israeli-backed militiamen, killing himself and wounding six people. It was the first suicide bombing reported this year in what Israel called its security zone.
According to the state radio report, the suicide bomber in south Lebanon denoted an estimated 220 pounds of explosives as South Lebanon Army militiamen searched cars at Kawkaba, about nine miles north of the Israeli border.
Three militiamen and three civilians were wounded, the radio said.
Greek businessman killed by a leftist terrorist group
United Press International
ATHENS, Greece — A terrorist shot to death a prominent Greek businessman near his home yesterday and fled, leaving a statement defending the murder on grounds that the victim supported policies that led to impoverishment of the masses.
Dimitrios Angelopoulos, 79, president of the nation's largest steel company, was shot five times with a 38-caliber revolver on the street near his home in a downtown section of Athens, a police spokesman said.
The killer escaped by running down a side street, where an accomplice was waiting with a motorcycle, and sped away, police said.
At the scene, the gunman left a 13-page statement saying the assassination was staged by the November 17 leftist terrorist organization, which surfaced in 1975 when it claimed the murder of CIA Athens station chief Richard Welch.
Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou cut short a visit to China because of the shooting, which he condemned as criminal.
"It is despicable and contrary to the morals and traditions of our people, and cannot be covered by any political or ideological facade," he said.
Authorities offered a $335,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the assassin.
Bombing changes Weinberger's plans
The Associated Press
The bomb was hidden in a trash can next to the hotel entrance gate.
BANGKOK, Thailand — Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger received cheers during a border tour and protests in Bangkok yesterday, then had his dinner plans changed by a bomb explosion in a hotel parking lot.
The bomb, which wounded three people, went off about 15 feet from where Weinberger was to have passed 90 minutes later on his way to a state dinner given by Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanda at the government-owned Erawan Hotel.
Two men were seriously wounded, one losing a leg when his leg had to be amputated. A woman walking in the street suffered slight injuries.
The U.S. Embassy said Weinberger's delegation had no comment on the explosion. Foreign Minister Siddhi Savelsila told reporters the secretary shrugged it down, saying he was "not a dinner." "Thailand is one of the safest places in the world. It's safer than New York."
Officials moved the reception and dinner to another hotel.
Narong Mahanond, chief of the national police, said the bombing was under investigation. There was no
immediate claim of responsibility.
Earlier yesterday, Weinberger toured the tense Thai-Cambodian border and got a rousing welcome from villagers who have suffered from border battles between Cambodian rebels and Vietnamese forces that occupy the neighboring country.
A whole village of about 1,000 farmers, Ban Charat, welcomed Weinberger with American flags and traditional dances. The hamlet five miles from the frontier was reportedly shelled by Vietnamese artillery from inside Cambodia last April.
"We want you to know that we are with you." Weinberger said. "We support the things you do." Ban
Charat is one of several border villages that have been helped by U.S. aid.
Weinberger also inspected a Thai artillery base and was briefed by the regional army commander in Surin, 215 miles northeast of Bangkok.
In the capital, about 150 students and workers demonstrated outside the government building in which they were working. Prem discussed security issues.
The demonstrators distributed a letter to Weinberg criticizing U.S. agricultural legislation, which Thais fear will affect their rice exports. They also were worried about a plan to store U.S. armaments in Thailand for use by the Thais in an emergency.
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