1972: 'U.S. Wants Global Terrorism Talks'
By Gordon Bishop (10/23/06)
Global terrorism became such a threat to America that the Nixon White House demanded that the United Nations get involved to save the world.
The year was 1972 – and the above headline was the lead story on Page 1 of The Star-Ledger, New Jersey’s largest newspaper, where I worked as a columnist and investigative reporter from 1969 to 1996.
Above the global terrorism headline was the underlined “kicker” head: U.S. PRESSES DEMANDS AT UN.
The Star-Ledger’s United Nations Bureau reported:
With Secretary of State William P. Rogers carrying the ball, the U.S. yesterday opened a drive to urgently convene a world conference aimed at condemning and halting ‘the export of international terrorism.’
Speaking from the UN General Assembly rostrum, Rogers also:
-Submitted a treaty draft which would bind signatories to extradite or prosecute ‘any person who unlawfully kills, causes serious bodily harm or kidnaps another person’ with the intent ‘to damage the interest of or obtain concessions from a state or an international organization.’
-Disclosed that the U.S. was submitting an antiterrorism resolution to the General Assembly’s legal committee.
-Reported that in Frankfurt, Germany, the General Assembly of Interpol – the 110-nation crime-fighting network – yesterday adopted a U.S. sponsored resolution intended to ‘prevent or suppress’ global terrorism through international cooperation.
The Star-Ledger reported that “The slaughter of 11 Israelis by Palestinian gunmen at Munich has propelled senseless violence by political maniacs to the top of the UN Assembly’s 92-item agenda.
Rogers opened the law-and-order section of his speech by demanding that the UN ‘deal effectively with criminal acts of international terrorism which are so tragically touching the lives of people everywhere – without warning, without discrimination, without regard for the sanctity of human life.
In 1972 alone, Rogers said, 25 airlines from 13 countries have been hijacked and 26 other attempts have been frustrated. In the same period, Rogers said, 140 plane passengers and crew have been killed and 97 wounded by acts of terrorism. He also said that in five years, 27 diplomats from 11 countries have been kidnapped and three assassinated.
America – and the rest of civilization – had plenty of warnings to work together to rid the world of these religiously radical terrorists. For three decades, terrorists continued their massacre with little or no response by the civilized world.
The came 9/11/01 and the worst terrorists attack on America, taking down the World Trade Center Twin Towers, a commercial jet that crashed into the Pentagon, and another commercial jet that crashed in a field in Pennsylvania on its way to striking either the White House or our nation’s Capitol. Some 3,000 innocent civilians (children, women and men) were killed.
Why did it take so long for America and its allies in free countries to take terrorism seriously?
Apathy. Indifference.
And an absentee United Nations controlled by socialist Marxists.
The United Nations still doesn’t get it.
Neither do the liberal politicians and their liberal pawns in the American media.
President George W. Bush declared global war on terrorism. But the liberal politicians and their media cohorts still don’t give a damn. Their politically-warped agenda is to destroy Bush and anyone who agrees with his global war on terror.
Liberals want to negotiate with terrorists, who are committed to killing all Jews, Christians and “infidels” (America is the land of infidels).
This global war is between the terrorists and all of Western Civilization. George Bush is the only global leader in the war on terror. America’s allies have been co-opted by the socialists in England and Europe. Liberals love socialists and Marxists.
(Gordon Bishop, a ‘Who’s Who In America’ national award-winning author, historian and syndicated columnist, is New Jersey’s first “Journalist-of-the-Year”—1986/New Jersey Press Association)
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