Word: terrorists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Matyas Rakosi is the kind of old Communist revolutionary who left talk about civil liberties, land reform and the like to the parlor set. At 27 he was a hard-bitten commissar in the regime of Hungarian Red Terrorist Bela Kun; at 28 he was in Moscow as a secretary of the Comintern Executive, perfecting methods for smuggling agents into foreign lands, and capturing control of trade unions...
...breathless crowd of the President's narrow escape. Twenty-eight minutes later, pro-Rhee newspapers were on the streets with extras-something of a record, and lending point to those who thought the murder attempt was staged. Police identified the assassin as a onetime member of a Chinese terrorist organization, and arrested an Assemblyman who was said to have confessed to putting the old fellow...
...Casualties among the 250,000 British and Malayan security troops, who are stalking the Reds, are down 30%; the rate of terrorist activity has fallen...
...armed and uniformed male Communists and two women Communists walked into a British ambush on a hilltop rubber plantation. One woman, surprised, pulled a grenade from her blouse, flung it at the British and fled. British bullets brought down the others, among them Communist Commander Long Pin, No. 1 terrorist of North Selangor with a price of $8,000 on his head. British High Commissioner Sir Gerald Templer's policy of encouraging "whispers" from the native population is beginning...
...Communist Tudeh Party and whipped his No. 1 parliamentary opponent, wealthy landlord Jamal Imami. The more violently fanatic the candidate, the mere votes that candidate polled. Topping the list: Firebrand Hussein Makki, the Huey Long of the Frontists, closely trailed by Religious Leader Ayatulla Kashani, boss of the gunman-terrorist wing of the Frontist Party. With only one-sixth of the election returns in for the entire country (and with 36 killed in election troubles), Mossadegh seemed to be winning a clear mandate to take his country further down the road to bankruptcy...