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POLITICS
Europe plagued by
new breed of terrorists
By Irene Koo
Ai. cfTKff Ing form of tenuristn
potes severe new challenges for
Eutv^rw security official*.
OiTtciar, My that the blocking In
October of the tttlitn cruise liner
AchUIr 1 juro and the recent attacks
oa the Rome and Vienna airports anr
pear to fotlnw a trend.
Vrcviou* jettons In Europe atl-tbutrd
to Middle Eastern terrorists
*ecm to have been rnaittrnundcd and
executed by the Mine peorV.
On the other hand, thoe recent at<
. lack* appear to have ben executed
by youag tcrroctas guided from the
Middle East U< Hurope by a network
of Arab *nd European supporter*
working behind the tcenes.
Tnis distinction troubles European
security officials because it uifgcsts
that running terroriu groups can
oeblbh b«Kt ofiuppnti m a tHimber
of chie* In Western Europe.
Il also confronts teoirity officials
.with the taik of uproobrtf ^i obscure
leirur network whoie tnembefk offer
assailants support whilr. they.
ihemse!vei. remain out of Jjhf.
"!P the past, the people involved
worked by thcmsUves," uid one
Middle Eaucm diplomat who foUo\w
terrorist activitcs. "They were of
hifh caliber, and they were usually
assured .mpofanl puiitions after the
action."
"Now there ore rl»c professional
plannen. and the 1A1» who are trained
to go out and kill.
"When they go out, the professionals
wait by tie television.' tu
concluded, rcfeninc U the growing
u*c of youthful suicide cucurrundot,
fint popuUrued in the Middle East.
The security officials believe thtf
the emergence of the liuropean rxtwork
and the other changes in racic
rctVct the teo«e oTdeipcntion Mt in
*ome Palcttinian circles.
As tn the Middle East, the tcrrottst*
exported to Europe tend to ie young.
Mohammed Sarham, th; sole wtvivororthefcurPakstinanswhoattacted
Rome's airport, b 19 yean
old.
At lent two of it* four Pafetiinuos
being hdd in confection «ith the
Achillc Lauro hijacking arc
tecnage.-|.
The Palestinian who threw a boiri)
into the Briiivi Airways office of the
^ia VeiMo in Rome last September,
wounding several ptoote, w» 16
jfars o!d,
'Jrowng evidence of a European
coniYClMm ho. 'oUtmed the trad
toward yiAingcr tcTToris.-».
Pdlzi belio-. Oat Eumpeam supplied
the weipom Sarham and !al accornp'^xs
used in the airport atucl.
All Minour. a Palestinian seticd for
firing a DAVoka at the Jordanian cmh*uy
in Rome, uid he had received
the weapon from J woman he said
w«j either French or Italian.
The youth responsible for the
Bmtvh Airways'bornbing *akl theev
ptoiivo he ned were gi%cn to him
by a tall, blood man te knew only a*
"the Belgian."
In the nau. investigators have
discovered link, between Arab ev
trcmius in Europe Domestic terror
^nrjps tuch a* Italy *t Ret Brigade
support the view of ihc European
connection.
But b\Tstig3tors concede that they
hrvc few leads to foKow in "sweepinc
"Ut ih? presumed terror ncm."
as one foreign corrc*purtsJem described
the Mfution.
Berkeley rent control lavs:
unconstitutional?
By Ra)moiri. Loutr
. flcrlvtc** 1 t. rent tifwml law * ill rv
m »uV< LSI* luly vhen ihc United
StMc* Supreme Conn deckle* wtwihcr
«r tun k »iotato the Sherman An*
titruu Actor IK93.
If ihc Own ttriUs down the law.
il will alw» Knock d»mo dtvcm MI
u#tutc\ in New Jcnc). Mn^rui-
«ctu. ami Culifttrnu. »\ MCII J\ HOC
Jtm Smotl. the actiirrwv rcprc>cMin;
BciLck> *» tonJhird\ in ihc CJ>C.
argued bcfixv iSc Ctxin lhA ihc taw
restricting rent UXTCJM^ *fo«ikj rv in-
^tidatcd hecaun: it amnuMcd M
"naked price filing" in violation of
the Federal anitruxl U« pxlM-y ol
"Ircc ctKrtpcttlho in ihc marlctpUcc."
But Laurence H. Trihc. a Harvard
law pnrf^H** rcprc%cf4inf the uni*
vtfnary tty. civxeah that the aniitnot
law\ %htiuld m* he iwcmrctcJ ui Kir
kimi pt-v eminent* TnHn enjuf inp in
reasonable CCO>KHUIC repuljlNtu.
TT&K alui umed Bci Ldc> \ u*iutc
doo nut tioUic the Sherman Act:
*hkh forbid* "comnctt. comhinalion*
and ctMi%ptnictcv 'f roiraJnt of
trade" artJ urged ihc Supremo Cnuri
U' all'.tm a California Supreme Own
Jc.iNH-n u^rMWir-p the bw.
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win. ihcrc ••ill U- o» rent umintl
ar.)»hcrr und ttul will ju*. he ihc
hctEinnine ol an axsiult «n all landuw
and cnvimnmcnul IcfnUtitHi."
Trihc ctpljincd
3crVclc> \ currtnt rent jet. pa\«cU
m pfflO. i> **ne ufihe naiit«n\ i.njjhc4
becuuve it rcfuljic. ihc r«-nt of J
umi. mn j kiunv^ Even if J tenant
L^i\c% ihc 0*vllmp. the tcnl on 4
property t* MH' ctnitfllcd. The tu*c
reni cjn tniy he cfunjcJ h>' the
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