Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Terror. The country north of Trieste undoubtedly is Slovene as far west as the Isonzo. But it is equally certain that Trieste is an Italian city...
...also true that the Yugoslavs have carried on a reign of terror since they hit the place. Starting with a housecleaning of alleged Fascists, they have executed several hundred people and have jailed many more, including leaders of the Liberation Committee. It is a certified fact that during the early days of the occupation the darkened streets echoed the muffled sounds of shuffling feet as the Yugoslavs deported hundreds of Italians under cover of night. They have set up their own civil government and still refuse to recognize the authority of our A.M.G...
...three months, under sentence of death). There was also France's Le Vernet, Italy's Civitavecchia prison. Inmates who have been lucky enough to escape death in the Old School now wear a tie that is patterned of scars, ulcers, and a chronic condition of shakes and terror. "I dream," writes Koestler, that "I am being murdered in some kind of thicket . . .; there is a busy road at no more than ten yards distance; I scream for help, but nobody hears...
...Spies & Terror. In the lower schools, the report found the McCahey-Johnson control even tighter. Superintendent Johnson, whose back porch was dynamited last autumn (TIME, Oct. 2), was reported to have boasted of his spy system and its 24-hour service...
...terror, and insane distress...