Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guerrillas. Last week a car bomb exploded in the bustling heart of the capital during rush hour, leaving 20 people dead. Three days earlier a similar explosion took 13 lives in the holy city of Qom. By week's end the government claimed to have crushed two Iraqi-sponsored "terrorist networks," made up of both monarchists and leftist guerrillas, that Tehran held responsible for the bombings. In London, another bomb shattered a video store belonging to Reza Fazeli, a vocal Khomeini critic. Tehran and the mujahedin blamed each other for the blast, which killed Fazeli's 22-year...
...rebel troops. In its snug maroon auditorium just a few blocks from the Capitol, it held an all-day seminar for congressional staffers. The guests of honor: two top contra officers and a Nicaraguan opposition journalist. A week later Heritage issued a brisk nine-page report titled Nicaragua's Terrorist Connection, copies of which were distributed by hand to all Congressmen and to targeted staff members. Heritage's pro-contra blitz was on. The reign of the pensive, passive, pipe-smoking Washington think tank is under assault. These venerable research institutions, which sprang up in the first decades of this...
...twelve years prior to the Israeli invasion in 1982, almost as much as they hate the Israelis, who now control a six-mile by 40-mile security zone in the south. The extremists, including Hizballah, or Party of God, and Islamic Jihad, which is believed to be a terrorist unit within Hizballah, want to create in Lebanon an Iranian-style Islamic republic. The mainstream Amal, by contrast, wants to ensure that the Shi'ites have a major role in the Lebanon that eventually emerges from the destruction and chaos of the past eleven years...
...some 80 miles from Bombay, a motorcycle and a scooter roared up on either side of his car. Each two-wheeled vehicle carried a pair of armed youths. One of them sprayed the car with gunfire, killing the general and wounding his wife. The Khalistan Commando Force, a Sikh terrorist group, promptly took responsibility...
...people of Vitoria, a Basque community in northern Spain, celebrate the fiestas of the Virgen Blanca, the city's patron saint. Last week the annual merrymaking was disrupted when about 1,000 youths who had been drinking at fiesta street bars began chanting slogans in support of the Basque terrorist organization ETA. The demonstration soon developed into a riot in which 48 people, including ten police, were injured and tens of thousands of dollars in damage was done to public buildings...