Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...land where violence is constant and commonplace, the Communists have elevated terror to the level of a macabre political art. During the elections to date, they have blown up at least 14 polling places, snapped bullets into lines of voters, murdered eight candidates for office, abducted 25 more, and killed a total of nearly 200 civilians in purely election-oriented acts of intimidation. In the hamlet of Suoi Chan, only 40 miles east of Saigon, the Viet Cong slaughtered at least 18 civilians, three of them girls working for the Revolutionary Development pacification program that has been the target...
Horace is delighted at the defeat of Anthony and Cleopatra at Atrium, but admires the courage of the queen. Both moods are conveyed by Lowell. Cleopatra's "depraved gangs" are "germs of the Empire" while Caesar is seen in "the scowling truth of his terror...
...Niger and beyond, and the Organization of African Unity has even threatened to throw out Malawi as long as he is there. Banda is unimpressed. Last week he went before his Parlia ment to answer his critics with a quotation from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats...
...Terror Campaign. Since rural Vietnamese, like most rural folk everywhere, tend to be hostile to all big-city folk anyway, such repression of local expression for years provided the Viet Cong with a potent rallying cry. Until now, the successor governments to Diem in Saigon have done little about it. It is clear from the Communists' frantic response that they consider the local elections a major threat. They have begun a country-wide campaign to intimidate candidates and voters alike. Already they have killed two council candidates (one was gunned down last week only ten miles from Saigon...
...clearly genuine, and it is hard to deny the film's message: that much of the Dark Continent today is beset by violence and turmoil. But with a careful selection of film clips, an adroit director could make most parts of the world seem in the grip of terror-many far more so than Africa. Despite its lofty pretensions, the film has all too obviously been made for its shock value alone. As such, it is genuinely shocking. It is the value that is questionable...