Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ignore the plot: something standard about a Sicilian boy (Alberto Sordi) who makes good in Milan, comes home to visit the old folks, and suddenly finds himself, his pretty young wife and his two darling daughters involved in the insidious toils of La Mafia, the feudality of terror that for several centuries has ruled Sicily with poniard, pistol and poison. Smile a bit sadly when Sordi, a born comedian, tries to play the hero straight. And wink when the director, obviously afraid his customers will get sick of all that lumpy peasant pasta, slyly introduces a piece of smooth Brazilian...
Born. To Jomo Kenyatta, 74, Kenya's "Burning Spear" in the days of Mau Mau terror, now Prime Minister, and Ngina Kenyatta, 34, his fourth wife: their second son, fourth child (his eighth); in Nairobi...
...question in South Viet Nam was: "Whatever happened to the war?" Communist terror against civilians continued. But in military operations, it was the sixth consecutive week of only scattered and brief engagements, which the Viet Cong broke off with surprising readiness. One explanation: the guerrilla commanders, concerned by threats of stepped-up U.S. intervention, had ordered a temporary slowdown. Besides, it was the rice-planting season in the Mekong Delta, and many a part-time guerrilla was needed at home...
...Louis XVI-and by cutting laborers' wages to remove the temptation to idleness. But his vignettes of violent street scenes and underworld characters develop into a seething panorama of the revolutionary mob, culminating inevitably in massacres in the streets and prisons, and finally in the Reign of Terror. As for Restif himself, he was several times in danger from the Terror, but made an abject declaration for the party of Robespierre and survived to become a minor police official under Napoleon...
Mounting Mayhem. U.S. money alone cannot strengthen the Vietnamese will to fight-or counteract the rising, deliberate Red policy to break that will through terror. For almost a month, the rate of Viet Cong terrorist "incidents" has been up from an average 300 to 400 per week to 500 to 700, with a higher-than-usual percentage consisting of seemingly senseless mayhem. The Reds have mined and fired on peasant-loaded buses, ambushed three-wheeled Lambretta motor scooters, which are a favorite peasant means of conveyance, and unmercifully harassed junk families on canals and rivers. Last month the Reds burned...