Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...participants arrived in Britain for the talks, nerves were on edge. There were fears that the discussions might end in more acrimony, as well as rumors of a terrorist plot against the visiting officials. British security forces decided at the last minute to move the conference from London's modern and more convenient Churchill Hotel to the remote splendor of Leeds Castle. Security was extremely tight. Dayan and Kamel landed in a special section of London's Heathrow Airport, which had been barricaded by tanks, armored cars and British troops. Vance's jet was diverted...
...years ago Rhodesian army officers appeared, seeking permission to address the student body. Father Prosser refused, explaining that it would invite trouble for the students. The officers then asked to be allowed to bring the body of a dead terrorist to the school so the students would draw an obvious lesson. Yes, said Father Prosser, they might do so if the mission could give the guerrilla a Christian burial. At that, the army left and did not return...
...anything like the murder of West German Business Leader Hanns-Martin Schleyer last fall or the kidnaping of Belgian Industrialist Baron Edoard Jean Empain last winter, American executives have been frequent targets of violence. Indeed, according to a tally kept by the CIA, more than 40% of the 232 terrorist-connected kidnapings reported since 1970 (almost all in Latin America and Europe) have involved businessmen, one out of five of them Americans...
...point. Gustavo Curtis, the former chief of Beatrice Foods in Colombia who was held by terrorists for eight months, is suing his company for $185 million. His complaint: though the firm had had prior indications that he would be a terrorist target, Beatrice Foods treated his disappearance as a hoax at first, then dawdled over negotiating his release, condemning him and his family to a long, anxiety-laden ordeal...
Having recovered from a terrorist ambush two years ago, when he was shot eight times while driving to work, Chevron Boss Giovanni Theodoli, the president of the Italian association of petroleum companies, also practices unpredictability. When the time comes for the association's bimonthly meeting, only Theodoli knows in advance where the gathering will be, and members call him an hour beforehand to get a code number for the site...