Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision of the majority, it is a good thing. When it keeps voters away from the polls or prevents them from taking action against flaws in the system, it is obviously a detriment. Unfortunately, America is subject to both kinds of apathy. While there are probably fewer terrorist groups per capita than in most other countries, there are also lower voter turnouts at elections...
...document outlined specific steps that the seven nations agreed to apply against the governments of states that sponsor terrorism, singling out Libya. The accord includes limits on the size of diplomatic delegations, more stringent extradition arrangements and refusal to permit entry of any person expelled from another country for terrorist activities. At his Tokyo press conference, Reagan implied that the agreement actually went further. "We didn't think it was perhaps useful," he said, "to put all of that into a public statement telling terrorists exactly what it was we intended to do." Shultz, ordinarily Buddha-like, was downright ebullient...
...screen seemed distinctly ill at ease. Puffing on Marlboros, his eyes darting nervously between camera and interviewer, he vowed to launch terrorist attacks against Americans at home and abroad. That was not all; he labeled Ronald Reagan "enemy No. 1," implying that the President of the U.S. is a prime target for assassination...
...elusive Palestinian showed up on American television last week. In exchange for the exclusive 3 1/2-min. interview, NBC News executives agreed not to disclose Abbas' whereabouts, an arrangement that stirred up almost as much debate among U.S. officials and journalists as the larger issue of whether a hardened terrorist like Abbas should be allowed to use American television as a platform to air his deadly views...
...Obviously, terrorism thrives on this kind of publicity," said Charles Redman, a State Department spokesman. Robert Oakley, head of the State Department's counterterrorism office, called NBC's decision to keep Abbas' location secret "reprehensible" and accused the network of becoming, in effect, the terrorist's "accomplice...