Word: mastermind
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...rule. He soon emerged as the strongest of the colony's black political leaders, and within a few years was caught up in the controversy over the Mau Mau. After a series of terrorist murders in 1952, the colonial government ordered his arrest and charged him with being the mastermind behind the Mau Mau organization. He was convicted in a sort of political show trial and sent off to nine years of detention and restriction...
...impact of his 1974 strategy can best be expressed by the anecdote that one of Bryan Dorn's campaign workers told Marvin Chernoff, the mastermind behind Ravenel's campaigns. After the worker helped an illiterate woman get to the polls, he asked who would be her choice. The woman replied, "I guess you'd better give me the television...
DIED. Dr. Wadi Haddad, 49, co-founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (P.F.L.P.) along with fellow physician Dr. George Habash, and mastermind of many spectacular anti-Israeli terrorist acts, including the hijacking of four airliners in one operation in 1970 and the seizure of the Lufthansa airliner stormed by West German commandos at Mogadishu late last year; of an undisclosed illness; in East Berlin...
After Long reached the post of majority whip, a deteriorating marriage and a drinking problem eroded his power, and in 1969 he was unseated by Ted Kennedy. He repaid the favor two years later when he helped mastermind Byrd's upset victory for the whip post over Kennedy. Settled into a new marriage, he began rebuilding his influence at about the same time...
Some students of terrorism believe that Haddad was the mastermind behind the skyjacking of both the JAL plane last month and Lufthansa Flight 181. Even if that is not the case, he has more than enough grim incidents to his discredit, including the 1968 skyjacking of a Rome-Tel Aviv El Al flight and the 1970 skyjacking of four passenger jets, three of which were later blown up in the Jordanian desert. Haddad also planned the 1975 terrorist raid on OPEC headquarters in Vienna, which forced the oil-producing states to pay $25 million to ransom their ministers. The commander...