The Doomsday Army

February, 1977

Most people look at terrorism the way our ancestors looked at violent acts of nature. Terrorist acts such as airport massacres, bombs planted on airplanes or in banks, opponents shot down in the streets and government representatives kidnaped and flown from one end of the world to the other are viewed as a savage retribution by forces beyond our control. Terrorist leaders have been romanticized and often seem more like the gods of Olympus than like the organizers of carefully planned and finance...