Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more obscure leaders within the fragmented P.L.O., a member of its ten-man executive committee but directly in charge of only a splinter of a splinter, with perhaps fewer than 100 hard-core followers. His supposed allies openly deride Washington's characterization of him as a terrorist mastermind. Says one P.L.O. official in Tunis: "Abbas is a would-be Palestinian Rambo, big on brawn with some cunning. The problem is he has no brains...
...terrorist organizations. There is no one person, there is no one capital in the world that controls terrorism. There is an apparatus made up of about 50 major terrorist organizations. Some of them will be hired by one country to carry out a job, some by another. But these states also have their own apparatus: Iran has the Revolutionary Guards; Libya has its own gang of thugs. So the entire structure is very mixed up and highly complicated. It is very important that sanctions be imposed on these states, that they be economically squeezed and that their diplomatic apparatus...
Much speculation remains about the origins of this humorist terrorist organization...
...contradictory figure hovers in the wings. The demons he unleashed from his bedroom still wander through films and fiction today. As a young man, Strindberg wrote his manifesto: "No spring-cleaning is possible, everything must be burned, blown to bits." Here stands the classic confession of the artist as terrorist--not a nice man, but very much our contemporary...
...capture or kill the twelve American military advisers attached to the base. Only five were at La Union at the time, and none was injured. The guerrillas have killed five American soldiers in the past two years. In recent months the rebels have abandoned direct assaults in favor of terrorist acts, like the kidnaping last month of President Duarte's daughter. At week's end negotiations had still not been able to win her release...