The linkage of Armenians as a group to the terrorism of fringe elements is a crine not only against Armenian survivors but against the selfrespect of the Turks themselves. It is the intransigence of Turkish policy which encourages terrorism. in that it heightens the frustration of young idealists and pushes them into the arms of our centurys worst. most cowardly criminals. the practitioners of international terrorism who ascribe their ideals to the salvation of the oppressed and apply their efforts to the slaughter of innocent. Concommitant with this. official Turkish explanations claim that the plicy of deportation was a necessity of war. that elements withIn the Armenian popultiion threatened the security of the empire. What then. of the pictures of Armenian mt thers. themselves scarcely alive. holding moribund children agpinst their emaciated bodies as they lay captive under Turk!%h military guard? Were these women and infants. and the elderly victims of Turkish soldiers. threats to the empire?