Word: terroriste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farther, accused Britain's ally, Greece, of fomenting much of the trouble. "It is certainly contrary to the whole spirit of NATO," he said, "that one of its members should seek by radio propaganda of the foulest character, directed from its capital month after month, to stir up terrorist activity in the territory of another. There can be no confidence, still less friendship, while this continues. "It is sometimes suggested that a NATO base on Greek soil should suffice for our needs. This is not so." There might be occasions when Britain alone or Britain and its Baghdad Pact...
Next day EOKA, the right-wing underground terrorist outfit, issued its own communique. The EOKA announcement: it had hanged two British soldiers-Corporals Gordon Hill and Ronnie Shilton-in reprisal. The word was spread in leaflets scattered through Nicosia. EOKA warned: "We shall answer hanging with hanging and torture with torture." British troops caught one 19-year-old handing out the leaflets, shot him dead as he tried...
Sheltered, fed and supplied by villagers in the interior, Communist guerrillas spread over Pahang like a plague of locusts, giving the Sultan's demesne a reputation as the "blackest" state in Malaya (where black or white signifies terrorist or safe areas). British security forces and government propagandists were getting nowhere; the Sultan decided to take matters into his own hands...
...spread the length and width of Algeria. Last week French authorities announced the estimated casualties to date: 3,724 jellaghas killed, 2,000 captured. French losses: 672 soldiers and policemen killed, approximately the same number missing and presumed dead. Some 1,300 civilians have also died in terrorist attacks or reprisal killings. Reporters on the spot insist that there have been many more deaths than official sources chose to report-chiefly uncounted Moslems killed in reprisal for terrorist attacks...
...Secret Police Chief Ivan Serov, denouncing Serov as a "thug," "butcher" and "murderer" when Serov flew in last month to check security arrangements for K. & B. And though Russian Ambassador Jacob Malik had said repeatedly that Serov would nonetheless accompany K. & B., Moscow last week discreetly dropped the head terrorist from the list of top Communists coming to Britain...