Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...courtesy, calling Baker "Secretary Jim." But the North Carolina Senator and his allies used the occasion to declare themselves on some potentially troublesome issues: Salvadoran rightist Roberto D'Aubuisson may be an admirable patriot who has got a bum rap for the death squads, and Winnie Mandela is a terrorist...
According to federal prosecutors, the terrorist Japanese Red Army has one less soldier on active duty these days. A federal judge in Newark last week sentenced Yu Kikumura, 36, to 30 years in prison for possession of three pipe bombs and a false passport. A Japanese national, Kikumura was arrested last April on the New Jersey Turnpike by a state trooper, who says he saw the bombs in the back seat of his car. Prosecutors believe he intended to plant them in the New York City area in retaliation for the U.S. air raid on Libya. U.S. District Judge Alfred...
Sullivan, an Irish Catholic raised in England, called the IRA a terrorist group and said that it is supported by Libyan leader Moamar Khadafi, a known terrorist...
HIJACKING OF THE ACHILLE LAURO (NBC, Feb. 13, 9 p.m. EST). The docudrama mill churns on, this time reprising the 1985 terrorist attack that resulted in Leon Klinghoffer's murder. Karl Malden, Lee Grant and E.G. Marshall head a sturdy cast...
...government quickly concluded that the attack was mounted by leftist subversives, the first such terrorist assault by the left in almost a decade. Officials were startled that the attackers were members of the Movemiento Todos por La Patria (M.T.P.), a leftist group committed to social change that was formed in 1986 and until now had stopped short of violence. Earlier this month M.T.P. seemed to embrace a more radical agenda, and several key figures have been linked to a defunct ultra-left-wing revolutionary army with strong Cuban and Nicaraguan connections...