The Nation - News from Aug. 27, 1985

There is no real solution to terrorism, and the United States must be wary of trying to strike back against terrorists only to appease angry Americans, experts warned a House Judiciary subcommittee. “We must be wary of dealing with the terrorist threat by striking poses that are attractive to domestic opinion but do nothing, or may even be counterproductive, in terms of the real problem,” said William Quandt of the Brookings Institution, a Washington research center. Quandt said also: “There is little evidence that terrorism is the wave of the future . . . .”