Terrorism in a Bargaining Framework

A LTHOUGH hostage seizures are a small percentage of terrorist incidents, they represent some of the most spectacular and influential events.2 The takeover of the American embassy in Tehran on November 14, 1979, the seizure of eleven dPEC oil ministers on December 21, 1975, and the capture and killing of nine Israeli athletes on September 5, 1972, are incidents not easily forgotten. From 1968 through 1982, of the approximately 8,000 reported terrorist events, 540 (7 percent) were transna-

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