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Week of deadly global terrorism
Hijacking one of many acts
Associated Press
The TWA skyjacking over the
Mediterranean last Friday was the
opening act of a long, deadly week
of global terror — kidnappings,
shootings and bombings on five con
tinents, carried out in the name of a
world of causes.
Blood was shed not just in well-
known capitals of terrorism, such as
Beirut, San Salvador and Belfast,
but also in the quiet backwater of
Nepal and on the pleasant beachf
ront of Durban, South Africa.
At least 82 people died and 227
others were wounded in the terrorist
attacks of the past seven days. The
victims included Australian children
and Lebanese holiday-makers, Ne
palese politicians and five American
servicemen.
Here is a chronology of a week of
terror, as compiled from reports by
Associated Press bureaus around the
world:
Off-duty U.S. Marines
killed in El Salvador
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19
Associated Press
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador —
Gunmen dressed as members of the
Salvadoran armed forces opened
fire on a crowd at an outdoor cafe
Wednesday night, killing 13 people
including four off-duty U.S. Marine
a restaurant near the ambassador’s
residence, hitting two to three dozen
people. Four Marines were killed.”
The United States has U.S. Ma
rine guards at all its embassies
worldwide.
guards, a U.S. Embassy spokesman
said.
Two Marines escaped injury and
the assailants fled in blue Datsun au-
tombile, the spokesman said.
The embassy spokesman, who did
not want to be identified because of
security reasons, said the Marines
were dressed in civilian clothes. He
said they were assigned to the em
bassy as guards.
FRIDAY, JUNE 14
Two Arab gunmen comman
deered a TWA Boeing 727 jetliner
midway through a flight from
Athens to Rome, took it on a
hopscotch journey over the Mediter
ranean, killed one hostage, a U.S.
Navy diver, and on Sunday landed
for a third and final time in Beirut,
Lebanon.
In exchange for three dozen
American hostages, they demanded
release of 700 Lebanese Shiite Mos
lem prisoners from Israel.
While world attention focused on
the skyjackers, other terrorists were
also at work Friday.
In Beirut itself, two bearded men
in an explosives-filled automobile
detonated the suicide car inside a
Lebanese army post, killing 23 peo
ple.
In downtown Belfast, Northern
Ireland, a bomb planted by the out
lawed Irish Republican Army
wounded eight people.
Four Guatemalans and five Salva
dorans were killed in the spray of
gunfire, along with the four Ma
rines, the spokesman said. He said
the shooting occurred about 8:45
p.m.
The names of the dead were not
immediately available, he said.
In Washington, a Pentagon
spokesman, Lt. Cmdr. Charles
Smith, said of the four slain Ma
rines: “They were embassy guards
and they were off duty.”
“At this point it appears to have
been an act of random terrorism,”
the spokesman said. He character
ized the gunmen as “a squad of
guerrillas dressed as though they
were members of the Salvadoran
armed forces.”
A U.S. State Department
spokeswoman, Vivienne Ascher,
said: “A van with eight to 12 men
opened fire on a group of people at
He said the Marines were seated
at a sidewalk table when the gunmen
“pulled up in automobiles, hopped
out and began spraying” patrons of
the cafe located in Zona Rosa, an
area of nightclubs and restaurants in
the capital.
THURSDAY, JUNE 20
the sister of a provincial governor
and seriously wounded her hus
band.
SUNDAY, JUNE 16
SATURDAY, JUNE 15
As an off-duty policeman sat in an
automobile in the small town of Kil-
rea, Northern Ireland, a gunman
walked up and shot him dead.
Again, suspicion centered on the
IRA.
The Phili
ippines lingering insur
gency turned terrorist in a village on
the southern island of Mindanao,
where authorities reported that
Communist guerrillas “executed”
TUESDAY, JUNE 18
Bombings were reported on three
continents.
Two explosions rocked Jerusa
lem’s suburbs, and one woman was
reported slightly injured. Two other
bombs were safely dismantled in Tel
Aviv. Israeli police detained several
dozen Arab suspects for question
ing-
In Colombia, a series of explo
sions began late Tuesday and contin
ued into Thursday in Bogota and at
least three other cities, apparently in
connection with a call for a national
strike by Communist-controlled
unions. Public buses, a power plant
and other government installations
were damaged.
Back in Northern Ireland, the
IRA exploded a land mine under an
unmarked police car on a country
road, killing one officer and se
riously wounding his partner.
In racially troubled South Africa,
a black man hurled a grenade at
three police officers near Cape
Town, slightly wounding all three.
In Durban, two bombs exploded late
Wednesday and early Thursday, one
of them injuring two patrons of a
beachfront cafe.
On Thursday afternoon, the
usual calm of Nepal’s Himalayan
capital of Katmandu was shattered
by five bomb blasts — at the national
assembly and another government
building, the royal palace, and a ho
tel.
Five people were killed, including
an assembly member, and 23 in
jured. No one immediately claimed
responsibility.
Over thirty natioi
on United States
travel advisory
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan’s warning to travelers to
avoid Athens International Airport
in Greece, where two hijackers
boarded a TWA airliner a week ago,
is the latest of more than 30 travel
advisories about nations where secu
rity and terrorism pose problems.
Americans
travel.
may
The Stale Department says there
are only four countries that Ameri
cans should avoid entirely. They are
Lebanon, Libya, Iran and Afghani
stan. The United States does not
maintain diplomatic relations with
Libya and Iran.
In Libya’s case, a U.S. |
not valid. In Iran, the advro|
travel is “extremely hazarc
cause of the continued anii J
can atmosphere, the viniltij
American stance of the Irani
ernment and the presentconlij
tween Iran and Iraq.”
In the other cases, the advisories
are meant to pinpoint specific prob
lems and areas to avoid, as well as of
fer suggestions for those who must
travel to those areas.
In Lebanon, the adviser
Beirut International Airponi
considered safe for America^
cause of hijackings and kidiu|
It adds that “terroristactsaja
dividual Americans contim
other parts of Beirut."
79
Travel advisories are in effect for
98 countries for reasons ranging
from a shortage of hotel rooms to
cautions against taking photographs
at train stations. About 32 of those
are because of terrorism and secu
rity problems.
• P r , M .
ence Tuesday night, cautioned
Americans against using the Athens
airport, where security is considered
lax.
In India, gunmen assassinated a
Moslem leader of Prime Minister
Rajiv Gandhi’s party as he rode in a
rickshaw in Meerut, near New Delhi.
At mid-afternoon 6,500 miles
away, in a bustling departure hall at
West Germany’s Frankfurt airport, a
suitcase bomb blew up, leaving car
nage for which no one took respon
sibility.
The three people killed included
two identified as small Australian
children. Forty-two others were in
jured.
The week’s bloodiest attack oc
curred Wednesday evening in Tri
poli, Lebanon, when a car bomb dev
astated a candy shop where Moslems
were buying sweets to celebrate the
end of the fasting month of Rama
dan.
At least 33 were killed and 95
wounded, many of them women and
children. Again, no claim of respon
sibility.
And, as this day drew to a close, a
half-dozen or more gunmen stepped
from automobiles outside a row of
cafes in El Salvador’s capital of San
Salvador.
The gunmen sprayed the outdoor
crowd with automatic-weapons fire,
killing 13 people, including four off-
duty U.S. Marines and two other
Americans. The U.S. Embassy
blamed the attack on leftist guerril
las.
Although the State Department
does not publish a comprehensive
travel advisory list, it does maintain a
citizens’ emergency center, which
answers inquiries about places
There is a travel advisoryptB
ing to Cuba, with which themL ^
S>a.e S has no diplomaio* ,,
but it concerns a prohibtm,
some commercial business Lj‘ et ‘
actions rather than any* 1^^
problems. Ktateso
■The Bex
I he department advises ii^| ant j c q,
traveling in the northern ’fpettple abc
area of Nicaragua, which isiB^i to y,
military control, and waratkOponsjbji
elers may be subject to: Kphone «
searches. In addition, fightid ex i emist
the southern border has ma(ofj(| era tj on
hazardous in southern Nknpeut, belie
east of Lake Nicaragua. ronst winp
mil Liberal
Jim Callahan, a spokesman® || R , lt , ,
department’s consular affainljL ( | ami
reau, said there also wereadnsB^er of t
on travel in El Salvador, Gui;:fr an . n : n
Mozambique, Angola, Sonuln|
Zimbabwe.
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1,600 donors expected re
to show exposure to w'/uf
Associated Press
NEW YORK — About 1,600
blood donors will be notified during
the next 12 months that their blood
indicates prior exposure to the sus
pected AIDS virus, if current screen
ing trends continue, an American
Red Cross official says.
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removed from translusion s»®j ()S | eni ]
and put through a confirmato:. | onsibilit
II the finding is confirmed,lii* )s(a g es
nor is to be notified. If no a y j
tion is found, results are consiit'B| l | 0 p {j <.
inconclusive. The donor is n( ; j tU)
of any test results, and thebk®vj km
not used for transfusion.
More donors will get that news if
the Red Cross finds a better labo
ratory test for confirming its suspi
cions about their blood, said Dr. S.
Gerald Sandler, associate vice presi
dent for medical operations. In the
two-step screening procedure, only a
quarter of samples that test positive
initially are being confirmed posi
tive, and a more sensitive seconci test
should confirm a higher percentage,
Sandler said.
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I he main reason fornotilyi:| m - • .
nors is to let them avoid infeB|
other people, Sandler said. “
Red Cross blood banks are to start
notifying donors of confirmed posi
tive test results by July 1. Sandler
said Wednesday that he was aware of
only one notification program in op
eration, part of an experiment in At
lanta.
pr<
half the nation’s blood supply, began
screening donated blood in March to
keep the AIDS virus from spreading
through blood transfusions. Federal
authorities blame transfusions for
172 of the 11,010 AIDS cases
counted as of Monday by the Cen
ters for Disease Control.
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has been reported primarily® been ,
homosexuals, abusers ot in .T iy i, e i ( i,
drugs and hemophiliacs, and |r
spread by sexual contact and: || Beni a
laminated needles. Health oi tb ideas
and homosexual organization!! oners hek
urged high-risk people to avoid BO of vvh
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samples has found suspiciousMThe A
in 1.7 per 1,000 units. The conWl he ad\
atory test, performed on morefl Jards ou
1,000 samples of suspicious bM on,. more
far, affirmed the initial fipdiiifte Amal
22 percent of the units, Sandler#
Since 4 million people give blo^
Another reason for notificaj
to warn the donor that heisatiii
developing AIDS, “but we (
have enough information
what that risk is,” Sandler said.
the Red Cross every year, an
total of about 1,600 donor
tions can be projected, Sandlersl
The tests do not diagnose AIDS.
They are aimed at finding blood that
has been exposed to the virus sus
pected of causing acquired immune
deficiency syndrome.
Blood that initially tests positive is
Noting that about three-rju'
of initial positive results are noi‘
firmed, Sandler said the RedCri*
looking for a more sensitive! ;
firmatory test. I Editoi
die first
“We don’t have a reliable M Gen. On
of figuring out which arefalsef I?
lives and which aren’t,” he said B
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