Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks ago, I boarded a plane, which used to be a great place to do nothing, and noticed that the man next to me was a nervous wreck. I considered wrestling him to the floor, but he looked more like a nicotine fiend than a terrorist. So the plane takes off, we hit the electronic-device clearance altitude at 10,000 ft., and Mr. Jitters whips out a Game...
...from being a freedom fighter, Kurdish radical leader Abdullah Ocalan is a vicious hoodlum [WORLD, March 1]. Greece, which arranged to sneak this international terrorist into Kenya, should be put on the U.S. State Department list of terrorist countries. Greece has nurtured the ideology of Ocalan's Kurdistan Workers' Party cutthroats. ILYAS BOTAS Paterson...
...TELEVISION It is not necessarily the legitimacy of a a group's claim as much as the telegenic horror of its suffering that gains the combination of sympathy and anxiety crucial to independence. Constant images of the intifadeh helped transform the Palestinians from terrorist outcasts to deserving victims. The Basques, seeking a homeland from Spain and France, can air no bloody incidents to galvanize world support...
...good guys in your struggle. This is not a guarantee: the Ibos in Biafra were regarded as victims, yet the world refused them statehood. Still, it is because of the Chechens' reputation for thuggery that they command little support. Leaders can make or break perceptions: Abdullah Ocalan as a terrorist cast the Kurds into disrepute; captive and martyred, he may help reshape them into the cause du jour. The alchemy of time also helps, transmuting bad rebels into negotiating partners, as the years have done to Northern Ireland's Roman Catholics...
...Rigoberta Menchu Nobel Laureate and Marxist terrorist now exposed as an intellectual hoax," the advertisement reads. "This fraud was originally perpetrated and is still defended by your professors and by the Nobel Prize Committee...