Word: haruna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about 30 and dedicated to violent revolution, made its public debut in March 1970, when nine members hijacked a Japan Air Lines jet to Pyongyang, North Korea. Two years later, just before the Lod Airport massacre, authorities uncovered the bodies of 14 young men and women on remote Mount Haruna, 70 miles northwest of Tokyo. The 14, who had been tortured and left to die of exposure in freezing winter temperatures, had apparently been purged for displaying "bourgeois symptoms...