Word: reigns
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...four, Jean-Marc Rouillan, 34, and Nathalie Menigon, 30, are known as the "Bonnie and Clyde" of French terrorism, because of their brutal five- year reign as leaders of Action Directe. Rouillan is suspected of masterminding the murder of a French general in 1985, while Menigon and the second woman, Joelle Aubron, 27, had been sought for the assassination last November of the president of Renault, France's largest automaker. Action Directe is thought to have been responsible for as many as 80 terrorist attacks since...
...Knight had it all: an Olympic gold medal, two N.C.A.A. championships and an NIT crown. Then came the 1984-85 season. His basketball team, the Indiana Hoosiers, played under .500 in Big Ten competition for the first time in his 14-year reign as coach. Knight began to unravel. He benched his starters, dismissed his leading rebounder and, in a nationally televised game, he flung a chair across the court to protest the officiating. John Feinstein, a canny Washington Post columnist, focuses on the following season, when Knight veered even closer to the edge. Feinstein has no quarrel with...
...hinders public awareness." Yet some right-wing groups are unhappy too, claiming that the mini-series is too soft on the Soviets. Says Reed Irvine, head of Accuracy in Media: "There is a total lack of realism about what a Soviet occupation is really like, no evidence of a reign of terror...
...crazy or desperate enough to brave the mean streets of Beirut, it was one of the worst weeks in memory. In the short span of eight days, eight new hostages were swept up in a frightening new paroxysm of terrorist kidnapings. Almost any foreigner was fair game, and the reign of terror struck almost anywhere in the tortured city, from the backseat of a taxicab to a sun-drenched sidewalk, from a quiet hotel room to a seat of higher learning...
...Kohl has thrived, the campaign of the opposition Social Democrats has fallen as flat as the party's slogan, "Let justice reign and not social coldness." Social Democratic Leader Johannes Rau has hammered away at the obvious issues: the continued unemployment of 2.2 million workers, a government tax-reform proposal that would chiefly benefit the wealthy, and , cuts in social spending. Declares Rau: "I read the business section of the paper, and I see that we're doing great. But then I read my mail...