Volume 26, Number 3 · March 8, 1979
In Cold Blood
By Bernard Avishai
A Time of Terror: How Democratic Societies Respond to Revolutionary Violence
by J. Bowyer Bell
Basic Books, 292 pp., $10.95
The Ultimate Weapon: Terrorists and World Order
by Jan Schreiber
Morrow, 218 pp., $3.50 (paper)
The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East
by David Hirst
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 367 pp., $12.95
No terrorist will admit to 'terrorism'—only to committing the violence necessary for his presumably just struggle. Terrorism is the more perplexing since many good causes—the abolition of slavery, the subversion of the Nazi occupation, the founding of the Jewish state, the destruction of European colonialism—have been furthered by sickening acts of violence.
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