Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only two aides shared Shultz's views: L. Paul Bremer, head of State's counterterrorism office, who documented the case against Arafat as terrorist; and Charles Hill, the Secretary's tight-lipped, omnipresent personal assistant, who is known to share Shultz's strongly pro-Israel views...
...crowd has gathered at Fenway Park. More people than were in line for playoff tickets. How much danger is the sacred diamond in? I shudder to think. Let's just say that a van marked "Libyan Terrorist Squad" is parked on Lansdowne Street...
There I was in the cockpit, hurtling toward the coast of Libya at 500 m.p.h. My mission: to drop a couple of 100-lb. Maverick missiles on a terrorist training camp near the Libyan port of Benghazi. My craft: the new supersecret F-19, a plane so hard to pick up on radar that I felt sure I could swoop in and blast Gaddafi's buddies without getting shot down myself. Suddenly, I saw something that shattered my composure. High over my stubby left wing, a Soviet-built MiG-25 Foxbat fighter was headed my way. Did the enemy know...
...Harvard can do pretty much as it wants--misrepresent itself to prospective applicants and the world at large, engage in utter hypocrisy, support racist terrorist regimes, and keep its faculty segregated--and still be protected by 350 years of Ivy tradition. Harvard can also take the moral stands its own Resolution of Rights and Responsibilities calls on it to do. It can take the moral and ethical leadership its scholastic leadership has afforded the opportunity for. It has nothing to lose...
...there is one indelible difference between the two that could take on central importance if the nation faced an unforeseen terrorist threat or new left-wing insurgency in Latin America. Their diametrically opposed attitudes toward military intervention and covert operations are very much a product of their life experiences. Bush is the first former CIA director to seek the White House; Dukakis was an exchange student in Peru at the time of the 1954 CIA-backed coup in Guatemala. Small wonder that Bush retains a hawkish can-do faith in covert action; Dukakis is a multilateralist keenly aware...