NEWS AND VIEWS
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State Department - Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism
"Patterns of Global Terrorism 1996" released 30 April 1997
http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/terror_96/index.html
The Department of State's annual Patterns of Global
Terrorism focuses primarily on international terrorism
involving citizens or territory of two or more states. It also
describes but does not provide statistics on domestic
terrorism abroad, which is an even more widespread
phenomenon. The number of international terrorist incidents
has fallen, from a peak of 665 in 1987, to 296 in 1996, a
25-year low. Moreover, about two-thirds of these attacks
were minor acts of politically motivated violence against
commercial targets, which caused no deaths and few
casualties.
The Helsinki Summit: Fiction Vs. Fact
http://www.forbes.com:80/forbes/97/0505/5909037a.htm
Caspar W. Weinberger Forbes 05 May 1997
"Now that the Administration is firmly in the Russian camp,
agreeing that we will do nothing effective to defend
ourselves against Russia's huge nuclear missile capabilities,
our one remaining hope is that the U.S. Senate will refuse
to be bypassed, as the President has proposed. He and the
Senate should remember that the Defense Authorization
Act signed by Mr. Clinton in 1994 requires any agreement
that substantively modifies the ABM Treaty to be
submitted to the Senate."
Levy, Mordechai warn Syria over nerve gas
http://www.jpost.com:80/com/Archive/30.Apr.1997/News/Article-8.html
(Jerusalem Post) Wednesday, April 30, 1997 23 Nisan 5757
JERUSALEM (April 30) -- Israel is closely monitoring developments in
Syria ... Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai and Foreign Minister David
Levy both said yesterday. ... Levy noted that Israel has the means to
deter any enemy "in ways beyond anything the other side can imagine." ...
He said that "Israel is following this and other developments, and has the
ways and means to deter any enemy." ... Levy expressed fervent hope
that "in addition to this insane race, there is also a brain thinking what he
should and what he shouldn't do. We are developing deterrence means,
so that the other side understands it is not the only one which has control
of such a severe thing, and that we too control things seven times worse."
Syrian chemical-war threat?
Israel responds with a warning of nuke capability
http://www2.phillynews.com:80/daily_news/97/Apr/30/national/SYRI30.htm
Associated Press - Wednesday, April 30, 1997
"Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy warned Syria yesterday against
using chemical weapons and hinted at Israel's long-suspected nuclear
arsenal as a deterrent. ``We are following this development and others,''
Levy told Israel Radio. ``Anyone who does this understands that we
have capabilities far and above what the other side can even imagine.''
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