Ron & Dick: A Collaborative TL

May 20, 1977: A car bomb in Los Angeles kills 63 people and wounds 123 and the PFLP claims responsibility for said attack the next day

May 21, 1977: A skirmish between Indian and Pakistani soldiers in the Kashmir leaves 11 dead (7 Indians and 4 Pakistanis) and 35 wounded (16 Indians and 19 Pakistanis)
 
May 25th, 1977: Zia ul-Haq is found planning to overthrow Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto

September 26th, 1977: Zia ul-Haq and his goons are executed
 
May 22nd, 1977: The U.S. Ambassador to Portugal, Frank Carlucci, is shot at point blank range in Lisbon, but survives. The gunman is killed by a nearby plainclothes policeman. He is later identified as Ahmed Hammuda, a P.FL.P. member.
 
June 1, 1977: Tunisia and Libya sign the Sirte Accords in which the two countries pledge to form a "close economic, military, and political Union" and integrate their economies. This is a major victory for the regime of Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi as Gadhafi views it as a first step towards an "Arab Islamic Republic" comprising of all of North Africa
 
June 2nd, 1977: Reconnaissance by the C.I.A. finds that two close associates of Habash are at a camp in Libya.
 
June 3, 1977: Tunisian President Mohammed Masmoudi, who was installed as President by the coup plotters due to his support for a Tunisia-Libya union, gives a speech to a crowd of 12,500 in Tunis where he urged Tunisians to support the new government and to work to build ties with their "Arab Comrades" in Libya against "neo-colonialism".

June 4, 1977: Afghan politician Nur Muhammad Taraki, one of the leaders of Afghanistan's communist party, is assassinated while giving a speech in Kabul by a sniper.
 
June 3rd, 1977: President Reagan orders an airstrike on PFLP bases in Lebanon and Palestine. One of the suspected killed is George Habash's daughter, Abla. However, some say that she wasn't killed, while others say she didn't even exist
 
(spoilers) (no i won't tell you the democratic nominee in 1980)

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June 16th, 1977: President Reagan states that the Sirte Accords would "damage America's security"

June 17th, 1977: A terror attack in Tel Aviv kills 29. The PFLP soon declares responsibility

June 24th, 1977: Reagan asks congress for more funding for Israel

June 25th, 1977: Israeli troops are sent to Lebanon to deal with the PFLP
 
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