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For more than two years, the U.S. State Department’s Middle East experts flirted with Nabih Berri, leader of the Shiite militia Amal. He was presented to the American public as liberal, moderate, pro-western and even pro-U.S. Today he holds more than 30 American hostages in different parts of Beirut and demands ransom. The fact that Berri is the closest Syrian proxy in Lebanon is still not recognized by the Washington administration, even though the Amal leader has admitted his close ties with the hijackers and involved the U.S. in a tasteless political deal to press Israel for the release of 700 Shiite terrorists in exchange for 30 Americans. While TV personalities continue to discuss seriously the price Washington should pay Berri — on the Israeli account — serious Middle East experts agree that the hijacking and the whole operation following it were planned and directed from Damascus with possibly the participation of Iran. President Hafez Assad of Syria is the only one to benefit, whatever the outcome. Should the military option be closed to Washington, Assad will prove his point: America is a toothless giant not to be taken seriously in the Middle East. Egypt and Jordan would be taught a lesson concerning their pro-American sympathies. Should Israel bow to American pressure and release the 700 Shiite prisoners the display of weakness would boost Arab militancy and Assad’s no-compromise policy. On the other hand, assume a miracle occurs and the U.S. does undertake successful military action. Assad and Berri would not be losers anyway. The aggressiveness of the "Great Satan” would be proved again. Reagan faces the same dilemma as Jimmy Carter whose political destiny was destroyed by the hostage-taking in Iran. Not only the lives of the hostages are at stake. If the United States does not retaliate against the Shiite militia leadership in Lebanon or against Syria, the Americans and others might become targets of a widespread terrorist campaign. Emotions aside, such a campaign has already proved profitable for its organizers. International terrorism has begun an open war against the western world. Trained and sponsored by powerful states, it could become more dangerous than we might expect. To lose the first battle of that war — something the West is doing now — is something we can’t afford. Ordinary people pay the price with their lives. (Ilya Gcrol is a Vancouver Province political columnist.) $1.5 million lawsuit by Lucas AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) — Henry Lee Lucas, who once claimed he killed hundreds of people, including several in Canada, has filed a $1.5-million suit against law officers he says drugged him to get confessions. Williamson County Sheriff James Boutwell, one of the defendants named in the suit, called the allegations “completely ludicrous and without foundation.” The suit, filed this week in federal court in Austin, was assigned to U.S. District Judge Walter Smith, who set a hearing for Friday. According to published reports, Lucas apparently was hundreds of kilometres from some of the murders that were considered solved by authorities in several states. Lucas also was questioned by RCMP in connection with a series of murders along the Trans-Canada Highway in western Canada. KILLERS CAUGHT ON FILM TOKYO (AP) — Two sword-wielding men broke into the home of the chairman of a company being investigated for the fraudulent sale of gold bars and hacked their victim to death this week as television cameras recorded the attack. The television film showed the two killers smashing a window of a house in downtown Osaka, entering the building and then emerging a few minutes later, spattered with blood and shouting, “We are the criminals!” Suspects were arrested at the scene by police. Television crews had been stationed in front of the home of Kazuo Nagano, the 32-year-old chairman of Toyota Shoji Co. Ltd., because it was expected that police would arrive to arrest him on suspicion of violating the Foreign Exchange Control Law. Stories about the firm’s high-pressure sales tactics aimed at elderly people have been carried regularly by newspapers during the last week. Police in Osaka, 375 kilometres southwest of Tokyo, said the killers brushed past about 40 journalists, smashed their way into the house and then inflicted at least six deep wounds on Nagano, who was dead on arrival at a nearby hospital. 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The sale is conducted by Ron Newson’s Home Furnishings, 1533 2nd Ave. In the Bank of B.C. Building: 563-0656 by ILYA GEROL For Southam News VANCOUVER - A leading American expert on terrorism, whom I recently plied with a pile of traditional who-when-where-and-what-to-do questions about the U.S. plane hijacking, interrupted me in mid-sentence. “Two nights in a row I have been trying to find the answers,” he said. “But I have a question for you: Why do such things never happen to the Russians? There are many Arab terrorist groups, particularly pro-Kohmeini ones, who hate Communists as much as they hate Americans. What would the Russians do if an Aeroflot plane were hijacked to Beirut?” The Soviets would immediately issue an ultimatum to the government or organization in control. If demands were not met, the units of SPETSNAZ (equivalent of Rapid Deployment Force) would land whatever the consequences. Terrorists of every stripe are well aware of it. So Aeroflot can fly securely. Western countries, particularly the U.S. and Canada, are not prepared to confront terrorism. The macho-style hints that the Delta unit is moving to the crisis spot are worthless. Two out of two operations of the vaunted Delta unit failed miserably. The U.S. commandos appeared to be totally unprepared for the attempt to rescue American hostages in Iran in 1980. When the U.S. invaded Grenada in 1983, Delta’s helicopters managed to miss the island to the greatest astonishment of the landing troops. “Don’t mention Delta in my presence,” a senior officer of the 82nd Airborne Division told me in Grenada on the third day of the operation. “It’s only for the movies.” Middle East terrorism, the organizational base of worldwide terrorist activities, can’t be countered with a Hollywood-style approach. First the West and the U.S. must recognized the serious threat posed by this well-organized and co-ordinated terrorism. They must see their past errors in the Middle East and the real forces dominating the area. Without a clearer political vision, bravado only emphasizes the futility of amateurism, leaving appeasement as the only alternative. And that encourages yet more terrorism. The major mistake of the U.S. in 1982-1984 was the naive attempt by senior State Department bureau- \