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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even behind bars, Barbie throws a long shadow. From the day of his capture, there were whispers that retribution could bring political catastrophe: the prisoner knows too much about too many. His lawyer is Jacques Verges, most recently the defender of the Arab terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, sentenced last February to life imprisonment by a French tribunal for complicity in the killings of two diplomats, one of them an American, and in the attempted murder of a third. With Verges' help, Barbie is quite capable of turning the tables, of forcing a trial of France under the Occupation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Was He Normal? Human? Poor Humanity | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...When we met we talked about calculus and kids,but he's a terrorist in the eyes of thegovernment," Murphy said, adding that the two hadto meet in Murphy's hotel room because Molobia ison the run from the South African police...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: S. African Talks on $1M Fund | 5/2/1987 | See Source »

...ransome. Unless God receives $8 million in unmarked bills in a plain brown paper bag with no coppers and no funny stuff, He swears to strike Oral Roberts down and legally change the names of Roberts` children to Aural, Nasal, and Anal. It is clear that God the terrorist has to be stopped. If not He might start hijacking airplanes...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Oral Arguments | 4/9/1987 | See Source »

...answer, alas, is many. Last week a tough-talking Corazon Aquino symbolically snapped the olive branch of peace she had extended to the Communist rebels throughout her 13-month presidency. "Police and military action, not social and economic reforms, is the immediate solution to terrorist acts," she told an audience at the Philippine Military Academy. Earlier that day she had pledged to "smite the foe on the left and the right." Said Aquino: "I want a string of honorable military victories." Her speech represented a dramatic shift in tactics aimed at ending both the 18-year Communist insurgency and coup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Tough Words from the Top | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...friends, the baby-faced Gerard Steenson, 29, a founder of the terrorist Irish National Liberation Army, was known as "Pretty Boy." But when he was buried in Belfast last week, some recalled his other nickname: "Dr. Death." Steenson, gunned down as he and an associate drove through West Belfast, had been accused of killing at least half a dozen people over the past decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland: Dr. Death Goes to Rest | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

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