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- WORLD, Page 67World NotesTERRORISMTaking Revenge
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- Sir Peter Terry was doing a crossword puzzle in a back room
- in his house in the Staffordshire village of Milford when a
- gunman opened fire through a rear window, wounding him nine
- times. The attack left Terry with extensive internal injuries
- -- as well as two bullets lodged less than an inch from his
- brain.
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- The following day, with Terry in stable condition, the Irish
- Republican Army claimed responsibility for the attack. Its
- grievance was no mystery. Terry had been governor of Gibraltar
- in 1988 when three I.R.A. guerrillas were shot and killed there
- in an ambush that was staged by British agents. The I.R.A.
- members had been spotted parking a car that was mistakenly
- thought to contain a bomb. London claims that the I.R.A.
- rebels, who were unarmed, were shot when the agents believed
- their own lives were at risk.
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