Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evidence in the latest issue of the Review when Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor at M.I.T., offered his comment on the military establishment. Rehashing the recent Washington Peace March, he called the Pentagon the "most hideous institution on earth" and Senator Mike Mansfield the "kind of man who is the terror of our age." Guilty of "monstrous crimes" in Viet Nam, U.S. leadership, said Chomsky, is "taking the road of the Fascist aggressors of a generation...
Very few of even the most militant leaders in the movement would care to see Black Power become black terror. In Milwaukee, where Negroes are caroling, "I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas," the most publicized white leader in the new wave takes the position that peace, not violence, is the prospect. Says Father James E. Groppi, the Roman Catholic priest whose Negro followers call him "Ajax, the White Knight": "Black solidarity is a black identity to combat what is going on all around us. This is the prelude to real brotherhood and justice. Power is essential to black...
...Sergei Mironovich Kirov, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was assassinated in Leningrad. It was this event that Stalin chose to use as the excuse to rid himself of all potential opposition-real and imagined-and to inflict the cult of terror that would ensure his dictatorship...
...number two position. Last February an operation for the removal of a cyst forced Sterne out of action at midseason. His loss was a crucial blow to the team, but this season Sterne is regaining top form. "He's stronger every day," Barnaby said. "He's a real terror on the court...
...mother were alone and part-Jewish. When Hoffmann was II, the Nazis occupied Paris, where they were living, and he and his mother fled to Nice, first unoccupied and later controlled by the easy-going Italians. In 1943, Italy capitulated and the Germans took over. The Hoffmanns dwelt in terror; many of their countrymen--expatriate Austrians--were picked up by the Gestapo...