Word: terroriste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fantasy that a whole generation could be taught to believe that wrong was right, or could be emptied of all integrity and curiosity. But his greatest triumph was moral: he demonstrated the profound and needful truth that humanity is not necessarily forever bound and gagged by modern terrorist political techniques. Thus he gave to millions, and specifically to the youth of Eastern Europe, the hope for a foreseeable end to the long night of Communist dictatorship...
...Cyprus the British issued two casualty lists. The first showed a total of 32 British and French officers and men killed -in the Port Said fighting. The second listed 32 Britons and Cypriots killed in the same period-on Cyprus. Never since the terrorist EOKA, the Greek Cypriot underground, started its campaign of violence 18 months ago had so much blood been shed in so short a time...
...drink at an all-white hotel. He is refused, and in his humiliation mutters something about his hopes of marrying a white girl. In Pharamaul, that is enough to outrage both white and black. Dinamaula is arrested, and the headless tribe begins to shuffle back to savagery. A terrorist band called the Fish Men takes over, with rape, mutilation, crucifixion and cannibalism...
Shortly thereafter, the French made a basic political decision: courtship of the Arabs was over. From then on, France set to work to woo Israel, the Arabs' enemy. Menachim Beigin, onetime terrorist and leader of Israel's hot-headed Herut party, visited Paris and was invited to address the Chamber of Deputies?an unprecedented honor for an opposition politician of a foreign country. Secretly, France shipped Israel an extra 30 Mystere jet fighters. On Sept. 23, Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion joyfully proclaimed that Israel had at last found "a true ally." (The U.S. embassy in Israel sent round...
...French soldiers evidently thought that they were immune from the terrorist attacks that last week, after a brief armistice, erupted into a series of bombings and assassinations, resulting in the wounding of four British soldiers and the death of four civilians. Cypriot terrorism was still the main preoccupation of the British, whose troops traveled armed and only in groups. But the French acted like amiable sightseers and thought about the other business that had, ostensibly, brought them to Cyprus. "When do we leave for Egypt?" cried one cheerful French voice. That night, however, the Tenez la Gauche (Keep...