Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ugly, elusive war, fought with all the clever stunts in the guerrilla's handbook, not all of them deadly. Gangs disguised as official mosquito-spray teams walk into villages to confiscate farm equipment in the name of the government; sometimes they tear up peasants' identity cards to disrupt local administration; the Communists even managed to sabotage the national census by substituting falsified lists in some areas. The Viet Cong, which is what the Communist Vietnamese are called, are everywhere: tossing grenades into isolated villages in the rice fields in the south, sowing unrest among the border tribesmen in the thickly...
...Firmly pro-Western, Margai has already made Sierra Leone the twelfth member of the Commonwealth. Conspicuously absent from the festivities were his left-leaning neighbors, Ghana's Nkrumah and Guinea's Toure. The chief opposition party is heavily backed by Nkrumah, and when its leaders threatened to disrupt the freedom celebration, Sir Milton forehandedly jailed 31 of them...
...North Carolina's Uwharrie National Forest, 50 men broke camp in the swamps and headed stealthily out to intercept and disrupt regular U.S. Army troops on maneuver. In Alaska, a similar force worked with Eskimo scouts in the tundra. Another outfit was learning to handle explosives at the U.S. Navy's underwater demolition school in the Virgin Islands. In the Philippines, another detachment on maneuvers against the 2nd Airborne Battle Group of the 503rd Infantry, slipped through the jungle lines, dropped imitation poison in the drinking water, captured trucks, and otherwise raised sufficient havoc to delay the "advance...
...disrupt Egyptian-U.S. amity, the members of an Israeli secret organization were ordered to place bombs in U.S. owned business buildings and theaters and in USIA libraries in Alexandria and Cairo. The agents placed a couple of bombs before they were caught by Nasser's men. Two were executed and six went to jail for long terms...
...world's most eminent scientists of the mind heard Swedish Neurobiologist Holger Hyden (pronounced he-dam), 43, offer a theory about the chemistry of thought. Hyden, who is chief of tissue studies at the University of Goteborg, even named a chemical that dictators might use to disrupt the thought process and enslave the minds of their subjects...