text: loss of human life, or involving major damage or other serious conseguences (art. 98). Similar provisions are contained in the crininal codes of the other Union Republics. 10. $ith a view to preventing acts of terrorisn and punishing persons who commit tbem, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR has passed decrees entitled "Criminal Responsibility for the Hijacking of Aircraft", dated 3 January L973' r'Increasing Responsibility for the Unlawful Transportation by Air of Explosives or Highly Inflammable Substances'and Other Dangerous Goods and Articles", dated 19 Septernber 1973, and "Responsibility for the Unlanful nearing, KeePing, Acquisition, Manufacture and Sale of Firearms, Amnunition and Explosives", dated 1I FebruarY L974. 11. Article 213 (2) of the criminal code of the RSFSR and the respective articles of the criminal codes of the other Union Republics establish strinqent measures regarding criminal responsibility for the hijacking or seizure of aircraft perpetrated using violence or causing an air crash and aggravated by the loss of human life or bodilY iniurY. L2. The criminal legislation of the Union Republics (for example, art. 218 of t'he Criminal Code of the RSFSR) also establishes criminal responsibility for the unlawful wearing, keeping, acguisition, manufacture or sale of weapons' ammunition or explosives. 13. Soviet legislation provides for all-embracing measures to suppress any nanifestations of terrorism. 14. The internat.ional community is iustifiably alarmed by the trend which has become clearly established recently in a number of western countries towards an increase in the overall number of act,s of terrorism, including acts of international terrorism, and also towards broader activities by various kinds of organizations and groups which have adopted terrorist methods to achieve their purposes. prominent statesmen, politicians and public leaders, and diplomatic missions and tbeir staff have increasingly becorre the target of terrorist attecks. In 1983 and the first half of 1984 alone, more than 30 acts in the form of
analysis: The text appears to be discussing the legal framework and measures taken by the Soviet Union to prevent and punish acts of terrorism, including hijacking, seizure of aircraft, and the use of explosives. The text mentions specific articles and decrees related to criminal responsibility and punishment for such acts. The focus is on the legal and political aspects of terrorism, rather than economic, social, or environmental issues.