Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subject, New York City Police Department Terrorism Specialist Captain Frank Bolz, estimates that there are 140 clearly defined terrorist organizations active in the world today. Some, like West Germany's Red Army Faction or Italy's Red Brigades, nihilistically seek to destroy the societies that shelter them, and give little coherent thought to ultimate goals. Others, like the Sandinista guerrillas of Nicaragua or the Islamic Marxists of Iran, have specific targets-overthrowing regimes they regard as corrupt and oppressive. Still others, like the Proves of the Irish Republican Army, regard themselves as the vanguard of regional independence movements...
...circumstances under which Rowan is convicted of murder are also reminiscent of what actually happened during the years of protest against the war. Rowan gave shelter to three young activists who bombed a building on a Midwest campus, and when troopers surrounded his Pennsylvania farmhouse, gunfire erupted, leading to the death of one of the youths, as well as an FBI agent. That scenario seems possible--especially because such a bombing did actually occur on a Midwest campus, in 1970. An explosion at the University of Wisconsin that year destroyed part of a building and killed one person...
...Social Limits To Growth, economist Fred Hirsh contends that this paradox illustrates a profound change. In a modern affluent society, biological needs for life-sustaining food, shelter and clothing are easily met. People instead become preoccupied with status. Incentives, Hirsch, claims, become social, not material, in nature...
...meat of Hirsch's argument is simply this: In the pas' people desired shelter, clothing and good to protect themselves from such easily definable physical discomforts as cold, hunger and death. In that non-modern world individuals acted in very predictable fashions. Homo sapiens would do whatever was necessary to avoid the basic physical discomforts that incessantly plagued them...
...drill is to walk to the bomb alone, describing what can be seen. Major Thomas, weary and middleaged, too old for the game, takes shelter behind a pillar in Westminster Abbey as his friend Osgood makes the first approach. Speak ing for the tape recorder that is the hedge against future failure, Osgood reports that the thing is in a neatly made wooden box, as usual. No wires or fuses are visible. The customary message is scrawled across the top: "Bugger the Queen Mum." The I.R.A., of course...