The World - News from Aug. 28, 1989

International terrorist attacks rosed by 15% last year while state-sponsored terrorism fell by the same amount, Israel’s leading think tank said. A study by the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies also showed no international attacks linked to the Palestine Liberation Organization since its leader, Yasser Arafat, renounced terrorism last December, although attacks continued inside Israel. The center cited 433 terrorist attacks worldwide in 1988, compared to 377 in 1987. The 270 people who died in the bombing of a Pan Am jetliner over Scotland last December accounted for nearly half of the 626 people killed in all terrorist attacks last year, the report said.