European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns the stars and stripes july 1985 Oribio i Flora Lewis Nefri bunion won work against terror the crisis of the Twa hostages has Given the american Public a glimpse of the shifting imbroglio that has gripped Lebanon for a the argument about who has won this round reflects intricacies of the murderous fight in the area and distortions of the limelight nobody wins in nor does anyone trying to use its passions and Breeds for outside purposes impose an order for Long not the Palestine liberation not not the United not not advantages but there is no settlement be cause there Are too Many rival factions backed by too Many competing the focus now is on but that a not a the re Gions growing it has been is not the Rise of extremes but the Rise of an extremist Center whose sympathies Are engaged by the Lack of effective the convenient location and cosmopolitan easy Access to arms and Money have made Beirut the Hub of International terrorism for its not the but it cannot escape degradation for harbouring such a attempting to Cut off the air port makes sense As a temporary Preven Tive measure that will complicate the plans of they have had it too but the underpinnings Are too Amor too pervasive to be liquidated with precise blows at a commanding nerve Cen Ter to destroy the As Washington the Effort must be to isolate and frustrate there Are some signs that a sense of the worlds revulsion is spreading even among those who sponsored terrorism in the even Iran denounced the but it May also be a new recognition that governments must accept some inter National rules if they expert the International privileges of it is time to draft a like the Geneva convention on prisoners of states that refuse to sign and apply it will name them selves accomplices of the fact is that no political cause has been won by using terrorists were involved in the fight for israeli and algerian but the wars were won be cause of Broad popular the same was True of the iranian the recent spread of moslem terrorism based on fanaticism has no such clearly defined Robin Wright wrote in her forthcoming sacred rage the crusade of militant that the militants revolution is against foreign domination and encroachment in every aspect of their lives symbolized most often and most recently by the United their stand is a shriek of frustration against the pains and human Cost of join ing the modern world and the inability to share in its it is a mistake to conclude from the latest outrage that so ism has a particular Affinity for or that terrorism is especially there Are several forces of violent fanaticism in the islam now is Vulner Able because this happens to be a period of impatient sparked by several factors have converged the spread of education and broadcasting the Mirage that Oil Power could restore ancient glory the yearning for equal standing the sense of which the orthodox can attrib Ute to divergence from the path of pious understanding this background is necessary to be aware of the there is no More a simple Way to Deal with it than there is a simple Way for the afflicted people to overcome their neither retribution nor appeasement will but it is possible to strengthen the Appeal of reason and avoiding sometimes this takes the american statement on the preservation of its its stability and Security that broke the last obstacle to the hostages return was indeed a con though to not to lebanese it abandoned the Standard phrasing of policy on Lebanon Sov Independence and territorial in which had been aimed against the change was Israel also needs a realistic change end attempts to create a Frontier Buffer zone with its puppet lebanese army in return for shiite pledges to do what they Are determined to do anyway keep palestini ans from the Lebanon is so ensnared that it is possible to find common interests among erstwhile that is better than finding More enemies on the Tricky Road c new York times