Word: fanaticism
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Correspondent Barry Kalb happened to be reading about terrorism in Italy when word reached him at the TIME Rome bureau that Pope John Paul II had been shot in St. Peter's Square. He pieced together the grim sequence of events and then rushed to Gemelli Hospital to pursue...
The closing moments of the epic Masada were a startling reminder of the events in Guyana under the direction of another fanatic, James Jones. In both cases, the final action is an unacceptable alternative for either cause.
Like Booth and unlike most assassins elsewhere in the world, Americans who try to kill the famous are engaged primarily in psychodrama rather than political drama. They do not seem to care much whether their victim belongs to the left or the right. Arthur Bremer, who crippled George Wallace, thought...
The red-and-white DC-9 belonging to Garuda Indonesian Airways sat in the cargo area at Bangkok's Don Muang Airport, harshly illuminated by spotlights. Inside, five fanatic Muslim hijackers knelt in the aisle in thankful prayer, convinced that a deal had been struck and that, as they...
Some have even written in to say that they will reverse directions if they find they are driving out of the range of a station carrying the show. "A whole generation was cheated of radio drama," says Brown, who is himself something of a fanatic on the subject. "Only here...