Word: terrorism
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Opposing Freeman and Hoffman, is Donald Sutherland who gives an incredibly convincing performance as an inhuman, power-hungry general seemingly untouched by terror and suffering. To him, the infected are simply "casualties...
...composer, but now Maynard Solomon, in his extraordinary new study, Mozart: A Life (HarperCollins; 640 pages; $35), has gone much further than any of his predecessors in humanizing his subject. Above all, he limns the complex relationship between Mozart and the person who was the center and the terror of his life: his father, the fabulous monster Leopold...
...grisly slashing of throats--the method of murder favored by Islamist militants--has instilled terror in the country's collective psyche. But Serkadji prison is also symbolic: it became infamous during the 1954-62 war of independence as the place where French forces tortured, imprisoned and guillotined Algerian guerrillas. Today it is where the government holds 1,000 of as many as 30,000 Islamists reportedly jailed around the country. One former inmate told TIME he had been held for six weeks of solitary confinement in a dark, rat-infested underground cell, tormented by two prison guards...
With all Algeria caught in the grip of such random terror, peaceable residents are reduced to constant fear for their lives. More than 80% of the 75,000 resident foreigners have fled since extremists singled them out for assassination. France has shut down two consulates, and diplomats everywhere are keeping out of sight. Western governments that might be expected to help negotiate some kind of conciliation between the Algerian government and the radicals confess to total frustration. France, which once ruled Algeria, is worried that the spreading war will seep into neighboring Tunisia and Morocco and provoke a massive flight...
Anxious though Washington is, the Clinton Administration can offer only bromides. Says an official: ``This is very much an internal problem. We see neither violence nor terror as likely to restore sta- bility. There must be political dialogue.'' Before that unlikely event occurs, Algeria will continue to be a living--and murderous--hell...