Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marched on the Communist side: his forces carried huge banners with pictured of Mao on them and posters that proclaimed the gory of the Chinese. Ho's men killed the bad authorities to ingratiate the people, but they also killed the good to terrorize the government. There was much senseless killing. Villigers la the likes were tortured brutality, and killed and the precis of them were left for terror. Everywhere the people were told that the land would be distributed to the peasants if the the Communists won. This land propaganda was, with other things, crucial is Meo's victory...
Raising the war cry "Down with the undemocratic regime of the Shah," Moslem extremists are fighting reforms with terror. In the last 16 years, three Iranian leaders have been murdered and a fourth narrowly escaped. The latest victim: Premier Hassanali Mansur, 41, who died last week after having been shot by a young Moslem terrorist at the gates of the Iranian Parliament...
...Virtue of Terror. While Palmer is a meticulously honest historian incapable of suppressing any facts, he interprets them with some elasticity. He maintains, for instance, that Robespierre and John Adams were spiritual twins of the Enlightenment, that Adams in Robespierre's shoes might well have behaved as ruthlessly as the fanatic Jacobin...
...defense of British soldiers after the Boston Massacre. Robespierre, by contrast, labored under a crabbed, crass perversion of Enlightenment philosophy that allowed no room for disagreement or human foible. Those who did not share that vision were packed off to the guillotine; some 17,000 were beheaded during the Terror. By equating Virtue with Terror, Robespierre set a comforting precedent for every subsequent despot from Stalin to Castro...
...ocratic principles in the shrewd pursuit of its own self-interest. But when French arms were triumphant in 1794 and Britain's security endangered, the government in London indicted only a few persons for treason; and, though far more suspect than most Frenchmen who perished in the Terror, every one of them enjoyed his day in court and was acquitted...