Age of Terrorism

Walter Laqueur. Little Brown and Company, $12.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-316-51479-8

``In the author's controversial view, terrorism is a side-show affecting the lives of a relative handful of people,'' PW reported. According to this update of Laqueur's Terrorism, the danger of international terrorism is not in the acts themselves, but in the possibility of triggering a full-scale war. (June)

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