Historical Dictionary of Terrorism Third Edition

CHRONOLOGY • xxxixpriests and two maids at the José Simeón Canas University of CentralAmerica. For the first time in Salvadoran judicial history, the officersinvolved in this death squad killing are eventually convicted for theirparticipation.1990 25 February: Violeta Chamorro defeats Daniel Ortega inNicaraguan presidential elections, ending formal Sandinista dominationof Nicaragua. U.S.-supported contras begin demobilizationwhile Nicaraguan state support for leftist insurgency in El Salvadoris ended. 30 May: Israeli forces thwart seaborne attack on Tel Avivbeaches by members of Palestine Liberation Front. Refusal by thePalestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to condemn this attack leadsU.S. government to discontinue talks with PLO representatives. 14August: Sendero Luminoso terrorists attempt car bombing of PresidentialPalace in Lima, Peru, but fail to kill or wound newly electedPresident Alberto Fujimori. 12 October: Speaker of the EgyptianNational Assembly is murdered in an assault on his motorcade, possiblyby pro-Iraqi agents in retali ation for Egypt’s support of U.S.-ledmilitary preparations against Iraq following Iraqi invasion of Kuwaitin August 1990.1991 7 February: Irish Republican Army launches a mortar attackupon the British Prime Minister’s residence while Prime Minister JohnMajor and members of his cabinet are in session there. This attackresults in no deaths or injuries. 21 May: Former Indian Prime MinisterRajiv Gandhi is assassi nated by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelamsuicide bomber in southern India. 6 August: Shapur Bakhtiyar, lastprime minister of prerevolutionary Iranian monarchy, is assassinatedby Iranian agents in Paris. 11 August–4 December: All remaining sixU.S. hostages held by Islamic Jihad and several other Western hostages,including Terry Waite, are released before end of year. Remains ofWilliam Buckley and Lieutenant Colonel William R. Higgins also aresurrendered and returned to United States.1992 17 March: Islamic Jihad claims credit for car bombing of Israeliembassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29 and injuring 242 others, in reprisalfor Israeli killing of Hezbollah leader in air raids on Hezbollah bases. 29June: Armed Islamic Movement, believed to be the armed wing of theIslamic Salvation Front (FIS), assassinates Algerian President MuhammadBoudiaf. 16 July: Sendero Luminoso begins offensive to topple