Books: The Possessed and Dispossessed

GUERRILLA by WALTER LAQUEUR 462 pages. Little, Brown. $17.50.

TERRORISM: FROM ROBESPIERRE TO ARAFAT by ALBERT PARRY 624 pages. Vanguard. $17.50.

CRUSADERS, CRIMINALS, CRAZIES by FREDERICK J. HACKER 355 pages. Norton. $9.95.

To Historian Walter Laqueur, the terror elite works like a multinational corporation. "An operation," he writes, "would be planned in West Germany by Palestine Arabs, executed in Israel by terrorists recruited in Japan with weapons acquired in Italy but manufactured in Russia, supplied by an Algerian diplomat, and financed with Libyan money."

On the evidence of Albert Parry's passionately indignant survey of atrocities from Robespierre's Reign of Terror...

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