As an exchange student in 1984, I was immediately plunged into the European political arena every day on our campus in Normandy. International refugees poured into France from Poland, Iran, Lithuania, Ukraine, Romania and other countries. Nearly 600 terrorist attacks occurred that year including the IRA bombings in the United Kingdom, Direct Actions bombings in Paris, as well as the 300 bombs claimed by the Front for the National Liberation of Corsica…
