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| 1978 |
| | | Former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro is abducted and assassinated by the terrorist Red Brigades | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Sandinista guerrillas make a surprise attack on the National Palace in Nicaragua, taking more than 1000 people hostage | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Lord Mountbatten is killed by an IRA bomb that explodes on his boat in the bay of Donegal | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Saddam Hussein begins a reign of terror in Iraq, reading out at a meeting the names of fellow Ba'thists who are to be taken out and shot | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini seize the US embassy in Tehran, taking hostage 66 US citizens | |
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| 1980 |
| | | Archbishop Oscar Romero, an exponent of liberation theology, is killed as he celebrates Mass in San Salvador | |
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| 1981 |
| | | President Reagan is shot outside a hotel in Washington by John W. Hinckley Jr, but survives | |
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| 1981 |
| | | A Turkish assailant in St Peter's Square in Rome shoots and seriously wounds John Paul II | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Muslim terrorists assassinate Anwar el-Sadat, in response to his peace agreement with Israel | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Hezbollah emerges in Lebanon as an Iranian-sponsored resistance movement against the Israeli occupation of the southern part of the country | |
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