Word: terrorists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young (33) terrorist visited Cracow, where Lenin, in exile, trying to build up a group of hard-core professional revolutionaries inside Russia, was delighted with him, wrote to Maxim Gorky about his "wonderful Georgian." In Vienna he met Trotsky, who paused to note "the glint of animosity" in "Stalin's yellow eyes." Stalin wrote in Pravda (which he had helped to found): "Trotsky's childish plan for the merging of the unmergeable [Bolsheviks and Mensheviks] has proved him ... a common, noisy champion with faked muscles." In St. Petersburg in 1913, police got wind of Stalin's presence...
...stickup in the main square of Tiflis. Among those arrested as a result of this raid was Litvinov, future Commissar for Foreign Affairs, who was trying to dispose of the loot in Paris. Koba, although on the police "wanted" list, managed to keep in the background. He was a terrorist, but a terrorist who operated through committees. This was caution; none ever questioned his personal courage...
...game, its purple hills and russet downs. Thirty thousand whites grow much of Britain's coffee in its exclusive White Highlands, rule 5,500,000 blacks and 100,000 Indians with a strong hand, and now live with guns at their sides in fear of the terrorist Mau Mau secret society...
...Soviet security organs," said the voice, "uncovered a terrorist group of physicians who, by prescribing harmful treatment, sought to cut short the lives of Soviet leaders." Nine doctors, the cream of the Soviet medical profession, had "confessed" to murdering two Politburo members and to trying to murder top officers of the Soviet army and navy...
French authorities on the scene blamed extremists for the crime, and used the occasion to lock up a dozen top nationalist and labor leaders. The Tunisians blamed the assassination on what they said was a secret terrorist organization of resident Frenchmen called "the Red Hand...