Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sudden violence, for making it explode out of ordinary contexts. That talent is well employed in Mississippi Burning: a scene in which a black congregation emerges from an evening prayer meeting to confront a silent group of hooded Klansmen, clubs at the ready, is a little masterpiece of terror...
Three of those convicted of treason were senior front leaders who had spent 40 months in jail without bail--Popo Molefe, 36, who was the coalition's national secretary; Terror Lekota, 40, who was its chief spokesman, and Moses Chikane, 40, a leader of its Transvaal Province branch...
KRISTALLNACHT: THE JOURNEY FROM 1938 TO 1988 (PBS, Nov. 9, 9 p.m. on most stations). A look at the Nazi campaign of terror against Jews begins with the infamous "night of breaking glass...
...Halloween eve 50 years ago, Orson Welles' broadcast of H.G. Wells' classic The War of the Worlds panicked citizens on the U.S. East Coast who believed Martians were invading. Last week when a radio station in northern Portugal re-created the celebrated 1938 drama, people again reacted in terror...
...furor overshadowed West Germany's carefully planned ceremonies for the anniversary of the night of terror Nov. 9-10, 1938, which the Nazis named Kristallnacht, or Crystal Night, for the shattered glass that littered the streets...