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>> i don't believe she will change her philosophy. >> who are thought that patricia hearst would be robbing a bank? >> she must have been forced to do it. >> she a victim of thought control. >> lapd were determined. this heiress is about to be murdered. >> most people believe i am brainwashed or dead. >> we kidnapped a freak. >> this is happening now if you can possibly believe that. >> the terrorists are saying they will blow up the school, killing all the children inside. >> the german police are wamging a relent lgs war, capturing some, killing some. >> they are the terrorists. >> no one has immunity from the urban guerillas. >> 298 people held hostage.
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>> they had good ideals going about it the wrong way. >> we are ready to go on to martyrdom. >> the revolutionaries of the world unite.
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. >> hostages have become increasingly common. there have been bombings and shootings and strikes. >> a school bus was near the lebanese border. >> the 1970s saw the development of the terrorist repertoire. >> gangs of young people in the 1960s preferred terror, kidnapping, arson, machine guns, death and destruction. >> it was a global thing. those who wanted change faster than it would come resorted to violence. >> jar ppan had the first hijacking. most americans thought of terrorism is a problem that is a world or half a world away. throughout the 1970s, terrorism began to hit home. >> an elegant town house was
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destroyed by a series of dynamite explosions. authorities first assumed an accidental detonation in a gas line had been responsible except that the blast had been too powerful, destroying the $100,000 house and damaging the two neighboring homes, one belonging to dustin hoffman. they found the basement workshop with sticks of dynamite and the materials maded to make bombs. >> three bodies were found in the rubble. >> the new york cell of the weather underground was beginning to build bombs that were to be placed in an officer's stance. however something went badly and three ended up dead. >> the building's owner and another girl fled after the blast. >> i went into survival mode both to get out of the house and then to get away from the police. at that point i was a combatant. >> the student protesters in the
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60s turned into more serious revolutionaries using far more lethal weapons. >> the 60s were about changing hearts and minds. the 70s was more about expressing anger. the international politics and domestic politics seemed to be decided by violence and violence only begets violence. >> the underground with the radical left wing group the weather men promises more starting next week. the media for this was a tape recording by the fugitive leader. >> sisters and brothers, we are not just attacking targets. we are bringing a giant to its knees. guard your colleges, guard your bank, guard your doors. >> at one minute before 1:00 this morning, the switch board
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received a phone call. a man's voice said a bomb would go off in a half hour. at 1:30 in the morning, it did. credit for the bombing was claimed by the weather underground. >> it appears that weather is aiming even higher. at that point their idea was fewer bombs, higher profile targets. >> weather underground bombed the capital to bring joy. to bring joy to america. to bring a smile and a wink to all who hate the american government. >> when the police killed young black people, they bombed the police headquarters. when washington escalated the war to cambodia, we bombed the capital. >> a bomb exploded in the pentagon. >> it was trying to exact a small price for these policy decisions that were so unjust. >> much of the pentagon is a public area with visitors and tourists roaming through the halls and security was tighter today than yesterday. >> the 70s is a first-rate era
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of mass air travel. at this time there was virtually no security at airports. you can literally walk through the terminal sometimes even on to the plane without anyone checking your bags or person. >> one of the reasons for the rise of contemporary international terrorism was the development of modern jet air transportation. these were nationally labeled containers of potential hostages at 35,000 feet. >> good evening. the middle east conflict boiled over with four airplane hijackings, one boarded at lond london's heathrow airport. >> palestinian commandos took over for a fourth successful hijacking in as many days. they were forced to land at the
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jordanian air field already occupied by a twa and a swiss airliner. >> now 298 people held hostage on a bleak dusty airstrip out in the desert. they are surrounded by arabs who say they will kill them all if there is any attempt at rescue. >> the popular front for the liberation of palestine proudly claimed credit for the coordinated action. >> the arabs, not just palestinians look at israel. they occupy arab land and they don't believe israel should be there. that's the basis of the conflict. >> there is a move on every plane to explain our problem. and to justify the way we are doing things to convince them. >> the palestinians thought they had no choice but to turn to violence because no one was listening to them. >> can you tell us how the
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passengers are? >> the terrorists certainly used the media. this was an event that was maximized for its global attention and it provided an opportunity to really illuminate the terrorist cause. >> you rolling? >> what the palestinians say is how come the world has so much pity for the few hadn't people in the desert and no pity for the 2.5 million in the desert. >> the hijackers placed dynamite aboard the planes and the official said the planes can now be blown up at the push of a button. guerillas blue up three jets worth $25 million. all the passengers had been taken off before the dynamiting. >> the black cloud could be seen for miles and the new stage in
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the situation had begun. >> they don't call it terrorists. they call it national resistance. for us it was clear that the palestinian problem was not going away. ♪ burned me up and down, shno way to cool it. ♪ ♪ ♪ every time you kiss me it's like sunshine and whiskey ♪ applebee's handcrafted burgers. any burger just $7.99. now that's eatin good in the neighborhood. this is the story of green mountain coffee roasters dark magic told in the time it takes to brew your cup.
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transformed. instead of acting as referee between warring communities, the army is fighting the first guerilla war. the enemy is the outlawed irish republican army. >> the profissional ira of the 1970s used violence that many consider terroristic and they used that to put pressure to withdraw from northern ireland to bring about a sovereign country. >> this was a sunday that people of northern ireland will not forget. it all started when catholics organized a demonstration that protested the suspected terrorists. all demonstration was banned by the government. >> it was intended to be a protest which was not about using violence, but when some stopped and threw stones at the soldier, it led to overreaction.
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>> at least 13 people, civilians were killed, shot to death by british soldiers. >> bloody sunday was the breaking point where from then on it was a war between the british army and the ira. >> the british army are the terrorists. >> the army as long as anyone seeks to terrorize or intimidate ordinary people. >> there was bad trouble in bell fast, northern ireland. the only word to describe it is ghastly. they set off more than 20 explosions for an hour and a half creting a scene of bleed carnage with the long history of northern irish violence. 13 people are known dead and 120
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injured. >> that day became known as bloody friday, part of the campaign to undermine british rule and to make it ungovernable. >> the targets seem to be chosen because they would be crowded with people at that time of day. >> they managed to make the regularity of bombs going off the norm in the 1970s. >> what do you think will happen? >> they will just keep going on and on. >> it has to end sometime. >> sometime, but i don't know when. nobody knows. >> i'm jim mckay speaking to you live from abc headquarters outside the olympic village in munich, west germany. the olympics have become the one thing the germans didn't want them to be.
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the olympics of terror. >> i was in my bed at the hotel and the phone rang and they said you better get in here. there are terrorist who have taken over the apartments. i said they did what? >> at about 5:00 this morning before dawn, arab guerillas believed to be in number got over the fence of the israeli team. >> this was the first olympics that was going to have unprecedented live television coverage. >> this is happening now if you can possibly believe that. arab guerillas are still holding inside the rooms of the israeli olympic team. nine people, one of them believed dead. this is a live picture you are looking at. the room on the end is the head of one of the guerillas. >> munich was so shocking because we televised it. >> the terrorists have now
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tossed a paper out of the window and it bore the title communique and listed five points. >> the first purpose was the seize to israeli athletes as hostages and release palestinians. the wider more strategic purpose was to shower unprecedented attention on the palestinian cause. >> for does appear to be confirmed though anything confirmed today is difficult that the guerillas are from the left wing group black september. >> the revolutionaries of the world unite. >> black september came out of fatah. that was yasser arafat. >> a fat thought he was the leader of the palestinians and he was. he couldn't control all of them, but in as much as they hadda an elected representative, it was
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yasser arafat. >> five minutes past the deadline where they said they would execute the hostages. >> 900 million people tuned in to watch the olympic games around the world were transfixed watching this grizzly terrorist drama play out in front of them. >> the israeli hostages and commander who is held them hostage for the entire day has now left a makeshift helicopter pad at the back of the olympic village. >> they wanted to rescue them and the germans said no. when the bad number comes up, it comes up very bad. >> we find this drama has not ended. the third has -- >> the german police were set up at the nearby air base to neutralize the terrorists and there by rescue the hostages. >> the latest word we get from the airport is that all hell has broken loose out there.
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there is still shooting going on and report of a burning helicopter. >> police forces had no training in this area. they didn't expect people who were heavily armed and willing to sacrifice their lives for a cause. >> they're have now said there were 11 hostages. two were killed in their rooms yesterday morning. nine were killed at the airport tonight. they are all gone. >> this stunned the world. hundreds of millions were appalled by this event and galvanized the number of nations that begin to take the problem of terrorism more seriously. >> a lot of steady and hard thought has to be given to how they got into the situation of bands of terrorists can disrupt whole nations. it will be unpleasant, but
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>> there has been a big kidnapping on the west coast. the kidnapping victim is patricia hearst, the granddaughter of william randolph hearst. >> she 19 and she and her fiance were in her apartment when a woman and two armed men burst in and dragged patricia down the stairs and threw her into the trunk of a car and drove on. >> they thought the kidnapping could be part of a nationwide terrorism. >> it had been three days of false alarms until the radio station received what looks to be the first real message from the kidnapper. >> the irony of the patty hurst kidnapping is that the most marginal of groups manages to pull off what is after watergate the biggest media spectacle of the decade. >> the kidnappers are members of the symbionese liberation army. >> the sla is seeking the alliance of all groups in this country who oppose the present
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system and its government. it calls on them to unite in the fighting force. the sla is the preys upon the life of the people. >> we love you, patty. we are all praying for you. i know those people may have good ideals, they are just going about them the wrong way. >> initially patty's kidnapping progresses like you expect, but things start to get seriously weird. >> patty hearst claims she is tanya x. >> i have changed. >> at least initially there is widespread skepticism that she would join this group. it wasn't until she actually showed up in the middle of an sla bank robbery with a machine gun that suddenly all the country and all the world realized that this heiress was
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part of an underground terrorist group. >> you know what my team would use? >> yes. i thought you would. >> people didn't understand at this time the hostage reaction to the term stockholm syndrome had not yet welcome current. >> it was a fascinating case in stockholm last year. it was a bank robbery in stockholm. one of the women was held hostage is waiting for the robber to get out of jail to marry him. >> what? >> it's a traumatic experience in which the individual is reduced to total helplessness and begins to identify in a human sense with the captor. >> good evening. patty hearst has been taken into custody. the fbi said patty hearst was picked up today in san francisco. the hearst newspaper heiress was
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missing for 19 months. >> by the time patty is apprehended, it's almost anti-climactic. when asked her occupation, she replied urban guerilla. >> the people saw themselves as political idealists. their story says something about terrorism as a shortcut for persuasion. the message doesn't seem to reach the weather underground or northern ireland or the middle mideast. >> for the second time in a month, arab terrorists staged a bleed attack in israel in a small settlement five miles from the border of lebanon. it began when they seized a high school. >> in the aftermath of the munich olympic attack, they realized that terrorism was both evolving and become becoming worse and they had to confront the terrorists head on. >> unless their demands are met,
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they will blow up the school, killing themselves and all the children inside. they negotiated a unit that moved alongside the school. it was an unsuccessful operation. 30 dead and nearly all i had school children while a number of injured stands at 87. >> sometimes the results are unfortunately tragic, but at least they were confronting the terrorists and making them understand they would not have an open field to carry out their operations. >> where they held the children hostage, should there be equal condemn nation of the slaughter in lebanon caused by israeli
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action. the latest reprisal there, 50 lebanese are reported killed. >> yasser arafat continued his trip from egypt to new york in great secrecy as he prepared to talk to the symbionese liberation army before the united nations tomorrow. >> we have people who have been out now who intend to make sure that arafat does not leave this country alive. >> a u.s. army helicopter brought yasser arafat from the united nations because of threats. >> a fat is coming to the un and it was huge because he was a terrorist. he was behind munich. for somebody that would kidnap and murder israeli athletes, coming to the un was a surprise to us. >> to many people he was a
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terrorist, but to an equal number of people, he was a freedom fighter. >> in the 1970s, this kind of rhetoric made perfect sense. people could identify with arafat and they could seize it. >> while the palestinians had not brought the palestinian liberation they were seeking, they put themselves at a high level indeed and this happened fast. >> in a historic vote, the general assembly supported the claim to state hood and a second
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. >> the fbi records more than 1,000 terrorist bombings every year. >> it is startling how these protest bombings were. they happened by the hundreds. >> in the state department and military abduction center in oakland, california. >> it was not a weapon that you used to kill people. it was something you used to disrupt things. somebody called them exploding press releases. >> they're protesting american involvement in indo china. >> the first bomb gets page one
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news. when you are up to the 30th bomb, it's on page six. >> a bomb exploded at los angeles international airport. >> some groups said only by being more ruthless can we achieve our goals. at least two people were killed and 30 injured. >> in lower manhattan an explosion left three dead. >> an explosion. >> terrorists felt they had to innovate high profile targets or higher body counts. >> in england several bombs blue up in the city and at least 17 people are dead. at least 70 more injured. >> the first bomb went off near the birmingham city center. minutes later and less than 100 yards away a second bomb in another pub. there have been 200 people inside and they were still searching for bodies in the rubble. >> terrorism only works when it
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shocks people. the ira prepares for a new tact toik bring the conflict to the british mainland. >> it has become a battlefield in the raging guerilla war over northern ireland. >> the terrorists of northern ireland spread and tonight was the worst. >> it was unrivalled. three men were kill and three wounded. >> there was speculation that one of the terrorists invaded the meeting and also known as the jackal. >> this is the clearest news film that exists. breaking away and answering the call from near the plane.
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they had a flair becoming the best known terrorist of the era. >> who is this man known as carlos ramirez sanchez. who is playing and how many members in his group of terror? >> carlos is a venezuelan in his 20s. politically motivate and wanted by france, holland, britain and austria. >> he crossed on passports and used 10 different names. spoke spanish, french, russian, english and arabic. >> this is a face for international terrorism. working with the palestinians and the germans. he was a wide canvas in which to play on. >> that was a take over in the hang.
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exchanging the french ambassador for the terrorists and $300,000. >> when you speak, it's political positions. in fact, he lacks one. >> he is sought in the bombing of a crowded drugstore last january. >> he maintained his cover as a playboy and learned to use women to store weapons. >> he was a womanizer and wanted to stay in the nicest hotels with caviar and champagne. that was part of the romantic m romanticism. >> if it is controlled, he was very violent. everybody knows it. >> when the police moved in on carlos last july, he killed two and disappeared. >> the plastic smiles on the
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face protect the first squad to be specifically claimed to fight terror groups. >> what happened in other parts of the world is a complete revolution of the military in much more emphasis on counter terrorism. >> don't miss! >> here's the situation and what's turning out to be the year's most spectacular hijack story. 101 hostages released into paris. another 110 are held at the airport and in uganda about 85 israeli nationals. >> relatives held an emotional meeting with government representatives this morning. they didn't care that israel has a policy of not dealing with terrorists. they wanted action from their government. >> israel set the example for many countries. they told the terrorists point blank, we are not going negotiate with you. we do not recognize your
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>> the rate is a special operation defined by surprise, speed, and success. mostly surprise. >> they are familiar with the airport because they built sections of it and had an active advisory until 1973 when a min kicked the israelis out. >> no one thought that. that was a surprise, number one. when they landed at the airport, they were wearing ugandan military uniforms. they were driving the same that they would drive. >> the hijackers didn't know what was going o. it was too late for them. >> it had taken just 52 minutes from the time the first plane landed until the took off with the hostages. that was three minutes less than the rehearsal the night before. >> the rescue is seems pretty much like a modern miracle.
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they were unsure whether they would see their loved ones again. >> what made you think that israel could pull off something like this? >> the rescue was one of the few bits of good news we had regarding counter terrorism. it was followed by the daring rescue of passengers that were aboard a hijacked lufthansa aircraft. >> the passengers and crew were in a non-rescue raid by german commandos at somalia's airport. >> there was a sense that the pendulum was swinging. if you hijacked a plane, you didn't get a free press conference. >> we see terrorism's evolution in the sense that they change up their tactics if they are going to stay a step ahead of the government. >> west german industrialist
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hands martin a key government adviser was kidnapped today. >> the terrorists riddled the cars as police body guards with machine gunfire. the body guards were killed. >> this is the third terrorist incident in germany in the past six months. all involve deaths and all involve the gang. >> the group was a faction in quest germany as part of a 1970s shred of marxist van gard groups. the japanese red army and the weather men in the united states. they felt that the capitalistic structures were unjustly needing to be destroyed and the only effective way to do that was through violence. >> the german police have been waging relentless war, capturing some, killing some. the leaders had more influence from inside than outside. authorities claimed this man continued to mastermind terrorist operations from inside
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prison, passing instruction through his attorneys. >> one of the gangs said the most fantastic thing in the 1970s was not to be a rock star, but a revolutionary. >> unlike the ira or other groups, they killed selective prosecutors and leaders of the society they tried so fervently to destroy. >> the more high profile or kidnapping, the more likely this would start the revolution. the spark of violence would catch on. >> although the 61-year-old and former premier of italy was kidnapped by a bunch called the red brigades is nowhere to be found. the kidnapping hit italians hard. both a man on the street and leaders of government. the attitude that the chaos is the natural state of affairs is here is no longer inseparable. >> the whole idea is the confidence of the government.
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and they did. >> the police are struggling to maintain law and order and appear to be no match for terrorist who is in the last six months have gunned down judges, journalists, business executives, topoliticians and policemen. >> a body was found in downtown rome today. the italian political leader one of the most respected men in the country had been brutally murdered. >> everyone realized that no one, even the most powerful has immunity from the urban guerillas. >> political terror in ireland claimed the first member of the british royal family. the cousin of the queen was killed when a powerful bomb exploded and he also died. >> the british army cannot defeat us. for this says the ira we will
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tear off their sentimentalist hearts. >> they were clear with the heart of the establishment of the enemy of the united kingdom. >> for created outrage in england. it is good that they are outraged. they >> is blowing up a 79-year-old man something the i.r.a. should be proud of? >> he was a person who personified british imperialism, and he implemented the most oppressive and vile legislation which has made the state of war which exists today. >> the british government fears the brutal violence in ireland could grow worse, possibly even including attacks on the queen. >> queen elizabeth's opening speech to parliament promised to restore peace to northern ireland, and the i.r.a. says its response will be simply more shootings, more bombings.
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[vo]it doesn't matter if you're from a small town... [mom] it's time to go watch the race, ok? [vo]a big town... [broadcaster] welcome back to the winter olympics. [vo]a nowhere town... [tv broadcaster] this is jessie diggins on the right! [loud cheering] [vo]we all call the same place home. i love you, afton! [vo]comcast is proud to bring the olympic winter games 2018 home to afton and every other hometown in america. has been invaded and occupied by iranian students. the americans inside have been taken prisoner. >> i'll be honest with you. i was scared. who knows what a mob could do? >> the american hostages were
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blindfolded, handcuffed and marched out on the u.s. embassy's front steps by the revolutionary students. in return for their american hostages' freedom, they're demanding the united states give up the deposed shah of iran from his hospital bed in new york to stand trial before a people's court. >> amidst the iranian revolution, america's closest ally the shah of iran is toppled. both the shah and the united states seem to be aloof to the revolutionary fervor. >> the new iranian islamic republic would be inspired by the stern religious principles of islam, nothing else. >> ayatollah khomeini became the enemy of the united states the minute he replaced the shah. he gave a series of sermons that condemned the loss of iranian sovereignty. >> when ayatollah khomeini saw
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large crowds gathering in support in front of the embassy, he made the decision, i'm not going to stand this wave. i'm going to ride it. >> there has been a persistent belief in many quarters here in iran that the united states government was plotting to restore the shah to power here. >> from the iranian standpoint, it wasn't terrorism. they looked at the embassy as an occupying force. the embassy was actually the agent for controlling iranian politics. >> khomeini issued a new warning. he said if the americans try military force to rescue the hostages, the students will kill them all and blow up the embassy. >> because of the distance from tehran to the arabian sea, a rescue of the american hostages is considered unlikely. >> how much longer can you go on doing this? >> we are ready to go on until martyrdom. martyrs are alive in islam. martyrs do not die. martyrs are not destroyed.
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>> so the bullets do not really kill? >> the bullets do not kill the rights of the people. >> terrorism was suddenly moving from what had once been almost entirely a secular, politically ideological movement to something that is now motivated or fueled by religious fervor. >> in mecca, men described as religious deviants are holding hostages in the sacred grand mosque. >> 15,000 pilgrims were praying at dawn when the 30 giant doors were sealed off by hundreds of members of a muslim sect. they seek to purify the religion from what they say is the corrupt influence of the current saudi arabian government. dozens are said to have died. >> this group of radicals took over very abruptly, very suddenly and very quickly islam's holiest site. >> saudi officials rush tanks and troops to mecca surrounding
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the shrine. eyewitnesses say as many as 10,000 pilgrims are still inside the grand mosque, and sniper fire was heard all day in mecca. >> broadcasts from iran today blame the united states for the assault on the grand mosque in mecca, the muslim holy city in saudi arabia. those broadcasts were heard in islamabad where a mob stormed the american embassy, killed a marine guard and trapped about 100 americans in the embassy. >> the mob was screaming "kill the american dogs" in islamabad. this is the third major event in the muslim world in the last 24 hours. >> in tehran this morning, millions of people are shouting "death to the shah, death to carter." that is followed by the cry "god is great." >> these groups are very hard to dissuade. these people believe that god is on their side. that is a very powerful form of delusion.
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>> by the end of the year, it was clear that the united states was so ill prepared and failed to recognize the extraordinary change that had happened in the '70s. >> new year's eve, end of the decade but not yet of the deadlock. >> in 1979, we take a deep breath and realize we're on the precipice of an entirely new era of terrorism. >> the crisis goes well beyond the u.s. embassy walls in tehran. >> rather than catching our breath, we should have been thinking, how can this get worse? >> it sounds like the most futile observation possible, but i'm going to make it anyhow. we have to find a way to stop terrorism. it is growing at a scary rate. terror is a new form of warfare, and history shows that every new form of warfare, like hitler's blitzkrieg, seems indomitable at first, but it soon provokes ingenuity to find ways to overcome it.
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remember skyjacking seemed insuperable in this country once. we have stopped it. i don't know how terrorism can be stopped, but history's rhythm is on our side. our first guest, patty hearst, the victim of the motion bizarre kidnapping in american history. kicking and screaming from her california apartment, shoved into the trunk of a car and sped off into the night. four months later she stunned the world by announcing she joined her captors. >> less than 30 minutes

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