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Subject: Re: Re: Terrorism, etc. (Just a thought)
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Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 13:47:00 EST
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> ***** ada-uts:net.politics / rlgvax!raghu /  8:34 am  Nov  1, 1985
> 	I totally agree. When an innocent American is killed abroad
> 	by Arabs (or Palestinians), all hell breaks loose among the
> 	journalists and the news media, but when an equally innocent
> 	Arab-sympathizer is killed in America by Americans, it is
> 	conveniently ignored by the news media. I did see a small blurp
> 	in the Washington Post a few weeks back about Odeh but nothing
> 	more.
> 	Both murders were acts of terrorism and both deserve reasonable
> 	coverage in the news.
> 							- Raghu.

   I do agree that both murders are equally reprehensible. As for the
coverage  by  media,  the  difference  is  easy to explain by the
difference between those two events.
   The first lasted few days with a lot of diplomatic activities,
and  finally  resulted  in the fall of the Italian government and
serious rift in the relations between USA and Egypt.
   The second one was a murder, unfortunately one of many in this
country.  The  fact that the victim was a political activist does
cast some suspicions, but does not make it as  drammatic  as  the
first event.  That's why media covered them differently.

				Alex Zatsman.