Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intelligence estimates that more than 200 Venezuelans went to Cuba for training last year, and as one U.S. official says, "We do not consider it sheer coincidence that the Venezuelan democratic government is being subjected most heavily to the terrorist and guerrilla activities of Castro Communists...
Excited witnesses reported that the killer limped as he ran to the getaway car, and police leaped to the conclusion that this might well be the work of the notorious S.A.O. terrorist, George Watin, nicknamed "The Limper." Whetting their suspicions was the discovery in Lafond's files of letters from the S.A.O. a year ago, demanding "voluntary contributions" to support the terrorist plots against Charles de Gaulle and other "enemies" of their movement. The wealthy banker had refused to cooperate...
Fasching Brawl. Ever since April 1961, ex-Colonel Antoine-Charles-Louis-Marie Argoud, 48, had been one of the terrorist Secret Army Organization's top leaders. Earlier, as a sector commander in Algeria, he was famed for his use of psychological warfare tactics against the rebel F.L.N. An Argoud specialty: exhibiting in the streets bodies of executed Moslem prisoners as a warning. After leaving Algeria, he grew a beard and shuttled anonymously between Italy, Germany and Switzerland. Argoud had already been sentenced to death in absentia for his part in the 1961 Generals' Putsch, and, as a member...
...violence confined to the university grounds. The student terrorist organization is closely linked to the FALN (Armed Front for National Liberation), which in the last six months has destroyed an oil refinery, burned a Sears Roebuck warehouse, plundered an exhibition of Van Gogh and Cezanne paintings, hijacked the freighter Anzoategul, and performed numerous other acts of violence...
...them. But Betancourt made peace with his soldiers, and out in the countryside, peasants who elected him President loyally helped the government hunt down the guerrillas. Fidel Castro's Havana radio still cries daily for violent revolution. But the campaign has dwindled to desperate terrorist raids and publicity stunts like the hijacking of the freighter Anzoátegui (see next story...