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West German, French and Belgian radicals have as sassinated prominent members of the European defense establishment and set off bombs at a U.S. air base, military pipelines and other North Atlantic Treaty Organization instal lations. By narrowing their focus to NATO, the extremists may actually broaden their appeal, since they are aligning themselves with millions of young West Europeans who have demonstrated against U.S.-NATO missile deployment plans. A source close to the German un derground group, speaking with a reporter on condition of anonymity, said, “From the Red Army Faction point of view, the only opportunity to fight NATO suppression around the world is to organize a kind of ille gal guerrilla war and get in contact with more and more people.” Unlike such nationalist movements as the Irish Republican Army and Spain’s Basque separat ists, the “ideological” terror groups born in the late 1960s — notably West Germany’s Baader-Meinhof band and successor Red Army Fac tion, and Italy’s Red Brigades — were driven by a far-left creed that drew little popular support. By the late 1970s, these groups were under heavy pressure. In Italy, where the Red Brigades assassinated judges, police officials and former Premier Aldo Moro, au thorities say their key tools were new laws allowing plea bargaining for “repentant” terrorists who informed against comrades. About 1,250 Red Brigades members and other leftist terrorists are now in jail. In West Germany, advanced| lice work paid off. The Federal! Criminal Office, which has head! quarters in this gray Rhine River! city, put special anti-terrorist detecf lives into the field and developed! impressive computer files tying to! gether incidents, people, weapons! and methods. Despite the law-enforcement vbI tories, however, new generations oil militants are taking the field. Ferdinando Imposimato, anltal] ian magistrate long involved in t anti-terrorist fight, dates the curre®| wave to 1981. “Repentant terrorists tell usthaj in 1981, exiles from the RAF, Red Brigades and other groupswertI in Paris, and the order went oinl from there to kidnap Dozier," IrapoI simato said in a Rome interview. James L. Dozier, a U.S. Aran I brigadier general, was kidnappedy tire Red Brigades in Italy on Dec. li f 1981, and was rescued in a raid 42 days later. “From being an Italian groupwidil Italian targets, they switched and! turned on NATO targets,” Imposil mato said. By then, the first French terrotkj group. Direct Action, had appeared ! And in October 1984, Belgian let rorists calling themselves the Figk l ing Communist Cells Ixegan plantintl bombs. In January 1985, a joint statemenil by Direct Action and the Red At®I Faction declared they would k>| gether attack “the multinational structures of NATO." Weinberger’s Bangkok visit marred by bomb attack BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar- Weinberger pledged Wednesday that America is ready to modernize a Thai army facing off Soviet-backed Vietnamese forces along its border with Cambodia. He shrugged off a bomb attack that occurred Tuesday at a hotel where he was to have dinner. Three people were wounded by the device which police described as a home made time bomb. “I don’t have enough facts. I can’t really bring myself to believe that anybody would want to do me in,” Weinberger said in response to ques tions about the blast. Police said there were few clues to the explosion which occured in the parking lot of the Erawan Hotel just 90 minutes before Weinberger was to have arrived for a state dinner. Speaking to newsmen before de parting for Australia, Weinberger said his three-day visit to Thailand was very productive and that U.S.- Thai “cooperation for defense is stronger than ever.” Weinberger said he was optimistic that the U.S. Congress would ap prove a plan to place U.S. munitions in Thailand to be used by the Thai army in event of a serious military threat. Negotiations on the war reserve stockpile are to begin within two months, according to an agreement reached by Weinberger and Thai Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda. After the bombing, officials moved the reception and dinner to the Hilton Hotel, where the defense secretary was staying. Foreign Minister Siddhi Savetsila told reporters Weinberger had said at the private dinner: “Thailand is one of the safest places in the world. It’s safer than New York.” Police said the bomb at the Era- wan Hotel was hidden in a trash can at a drivers’ rest area next to the en trance gate. Two men were seriously wounded, one losing a leg through amputation. A woman walking in the street suffered slight injuries. Weinberger was to leave today for Australia. He visited South Korea, Japan and the Philippines before Thai land. U.S. delays underground nuclear test LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP)-Tlr United States delayed a contro versial underground nuclear weapons test Tuesday and sources said the postponemem was due to technical problems, not to discussions with the Sovi-1 ets, the weather or protests near| the site in which 89 people were arrested. The Department of Energy r Las Vegas refused even to con i firm that a test had been sched uled. The test had been scheduled the same day President Re: met with departing Soviet ambas sador Anatoly Dobrynin. White House spokesman Larry Speakes refused to discuss reasons for the postponement except to say it was unrelated to U.S.-Soviet relations or planning for a summit. The Soviet Union has main-1 tained a unilateral test moral torium, which the Reagan admin istration says the Soviets imposed because they had completed their] own tests. Asbestos settlement $145 million HOUSTON (AP) — Hundreds of former asbestos workers will share an estimated $145 million as part of a settlement announced Tuesday in a class-action federal lawsuit, attorneys said. “I was very pleased with the amount — very much so,” said Port Arthur attorney Walter Umphrey, who represents 539 of the 741 plaintiffs. “It is two or three times the national average (in such cases).” He estimated his clients alone would divide about $88 million. The Wellington Group, an organization of asbestos manufacturers paid the settlement. 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