Word: terrorists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country," said the note carried in the pocketbook of ember-eyed Lolita Lebroón the bloody day last March when she and three henchmen of Puerto Rico's fanatic Nationalist Party sprayed the chamber of U.S. House of Representatives with pistol bullets, wounding five Congressmen.* Last week Terrorist Lebroón got a much lighter sentence than she apparently expected. Washington's Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff gave her the maximum for assault with a dangerous weapon: 50 years in prison, with eligibility for parole in 16 years, eight months...
Over orange juice with the Premier of France, this suave, well-mannered ex-terrorist calmly disposed of nations and peoples (see below). He promised grandly that the French could keep a "cultural interest: in Indo-China. France would keep little else. Chou put it diplomatically: China wanted to be the protector of all three independent Indo-Chinese states. In a matter of months, thousands of gallant Vietnamese who had pledged their lives to the free world's promises would be handed over by default to their ruthless enemies...
...Terrorist killings followed. The body of Alfredo Abularach Sabagg, a salesman who had been inexplicably arrested and jailed a few days before, was returned to his family with the curt explanation: "Suicide." A post-mortem showed one arm broken, the sole of one foot burned, general bruises, and a bullet hole in the back of his head. Secretary of State Dulles spoke out bluntly against this "reign of terror" in a press conference. President Eisenhower added the weight of his disapproval and deep regret...
...Chagga did most of the fighting, and the Mau Mau ran away, leaving rifles, pistols and five prisoners behind. After them went the Masai. They caught one terrorist on a bus bound for Kenya; he had cut off his lion mane, but the telltale scars of Mau Mau oathtaking could plainly be seen on his arms...
...last January, I went to the Manila fish market and a friend introduced me to an old man who was carrying a basket of stinking fish. The old man was Arsenio Taruc, a blood relation of Luis Taruc, the elusive Huk (Communist) terrorist. Since his kinsman's outlawry, he had lost his social position and was working as a part-time stevedore...