PRESPECTIVE ON THE NEWS September 24, 1979 Issue

Disarming terrorism

Terrorism—such as that issuing from the trouble in Northern Ireland—can be disarmed.

We must go beyond the revulsion and emotional reaction aroused by such events as the killing of Britain's Lord Mountbatten. A higher response is demanded. Terrorism, wherever found, points up humanity's need for thoughts and lives built on the fundamental message Christ Jesus gave the world.

Cries for equal rights, counterclaims for national and cultural identity, will never be resolved by violence. Terrorism will not achieve the needed balance of freedom and unity.

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