Word: terrorist
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Trouble continued this week across Central America. In El Salvador, Communist rebels disrupted national elections by destroying power lines, kidnapping local officials, and threatening terrorist attacks on innocent civilians. And notwithstanding his offer to step down as armed forces chief, Gen. Manuel Noriega still maintains his grip on the reins of power in Panama--a country where the once-familiar "Yanqui go home" has now become "Noriega go home...
...would give Palestinians some autonomy, but rather than beginning negotiations on the disposition of territories within nine months, it would stall for at least three more years. Last week the Palestine Liberation Organization foolishly played into Shamir's stonewalling strategy by hijacking a bus carrying civilians in Israel. The terrorist incident, which left three Israelis and all three guerrillas dead, bolstered Shamir's position that Israel should not enter into negotiations that might include the P.L.O...
...when the women's movement gathered force, she did not join the parade but rather devoted her energy to a cycle of five science-fiction novels. She criticized the West when its power seemed paramount. When the enemies of democracy grew threatening, she changed her emphasis; in The Good Terrorist (1985) she showed civilized London under siege by mindless anarchists. The Fifth Child admirably continues this iconoclastic tradition; it is scary, engrossing and radically disturbing...
...like Tilted Arc, has met with hostility or indifference. One federal judge in Baltimore even organized his judicial colleagues in a bid to block a George Sugarman sculpture planned for the plaza of the courthouse where he worked, insisting that the piece could be a launching pad for terrorist attacks...
Dublin was also shocked by a British appeals court's decision in late January to uphold the convictions of six men, all Catholics of Ulster origin, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for two terrorist bombings in Birmingham in 1974. The defendants had charged that their confessions were extracted under duress; in any case, new evidence had emerged casting doubt on their guilt. Dublin was dismayed again last week when Private Ian Thain, the ) only British soldier convicted of a murder committed during the course of duty in Northern Ireland, was paroled after serving less than 2 1/2 years...