Word: terrorism
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...assess the great figures of medicine is by how completely they make us forget what we owe them. By that measure, Dr. Jonas E. Salk ranks very high. Partly because of the vaccine he introduced in the mid-1950s, it's hard now to recall the sheer terror that was once connected to the word polio. The incidence of the disease had risen sharply in the early part of this century, and every year brought the threat of another outbreak. Parents were haunted by the stories of children stricken suddenly by the telltale cramps and fever. Public swimming pools were...
...Chechen terror team issued a chilling ultimatum to the Russians: either begin the immediate withdrawal of troops from Chechnya or face a bloodbath. As government forces kept a tense vigil outside the hospital, stories quickly spread that to discourage rescue attempts the terrorists had mined the building and splashed gasoline on the hostages-numbering by some estimates close to 2,000. Ratcheting up the war of nerves, Shamil Basayev, a top rebel commander and leader of the operation, told journalists at a hastily improvised press conference: "It does not matter to us when we die. If necessary, we will shoot...
...raid came at a particularly embarrassing moment for the Kremlin. Only hours before the assault began, Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin had claimed that the government had taken measures to prevent terrorist attacks on Russian territory. With security tightened throughout Russia against more Chechen terror, President Boris Yeltsin immediately vowed to do everything possible to free the hostages, denouncing the attack as "unprecedented in cynicism and cruelty." In reality, the Kremlin had few options. It was certainly not prepared to negotiate an end to the Chechen war under such conditions, making a show of force inevitable...
...have distanced themselves from the revolution and its strict way of life. Pervasive corruption and a troubled economy have deepened disillusionment, and in recent months serious riots have broken out in several cities. Meanwhile, the U.S. and Israel regard Iran as a rogue state that seeks to export terror, build nuclear weapons and sabotage the Middle East peace process. When the Clinton Administration recently imposed a complete economic embargo, the rhetoric was harsher than that against any other country. But however real the threat from Tehran may be, one factor is not widely understood: the revolution is decaying. Iran...
Virginia Depper was sitting in her bedroom on a quiet October evening near Tucson, Arizona, when two bullets shattered her window. As she was on the phone to 911, she began to scream in terror. She was being bludgeoned to death. What was she saying? The 911 tape is garbled, but it may have been, "No ... Dale ... don't!'' Twenty-four hours later, Depper's ex-husband, anesthesiologist Dale Bertsch, was arrested and charged with murder. Several prominent criminal lawyers he contacted quoted him fees in the $250,000 range. Instead, he used attorney Larry Hammond, who agreed to take...