Word: terrorists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he would admit to organizing a plot to murder Stalin. They were deeply offended when Weissberg not only resisted admitting this, but insisted that he was also innocent of such lesser delinquencies as planning to blow up the Kharkov tractor works, or of building a "counterrevolutionary, Trotskyist, fascist, terrorist, diversionist and espionage organization ... on the territory of the Soviet Union...
...quality of this fanaticism can be seen in the two men closest to Mossadegh in politics. Ayatulla Kashani is a zealot of Islam who has spent his life fighting the infidel British in Iraq and Iran. He controls the Teheran mobs (except those controlled by the Communists), and his terrorist organization assassinated Razmara. Hussein Makki controls the oil-rich province of Khuzistan, in which the Abadan refinery lies. When the British got out, Mossadegh put Makki in charge of the oil installations. Makki's view on oil: close up the wells, pull down the refinery and forget about...
Humanitarian is not the word that leaps to mind at the sight of slick, pomaded Ujitoshi Konomi. One of the sharpest characters in Tokyo's gaudy Ginza district, Konomi has been in his time a gangster and political terrorist in Shanghai, a smuggler, black-marketeer and saloonkeeper in Japan. Konomi is also a man with important political connections. To forestall trouble, he is constantly accompanied by a bodyguard, a onetime lieutenant colonel in the Imperial Army. Still and all, it was as a humanitarian that Konomi filed a request with the Welfare Ministry back in 1949 to build...
Above the judges' heads on the wall of the Amman courtroom hung a black-draped picture of Jordan's late King Abdullah, his eyes fixed sternly on the proceedings. On trial: ten alleged accomplices of the little tailor's apprentice, a terrorist disciple of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who fired five bullets into Abdullah at Jerusalem's Mosque of the Rock (TIME, July...
...Communists looked for a reliable assassin, picked one Trinh Van Minh, 25, a fanatical member of IndoChina's noisy, party-lining Patriotic Youth Society. Trinh Van Minh was in jail on charges of being a Viet Minh terrorist, but the Patriotic Youth Society put pressure on the Viet Nam government to set him free. French police warned that the Patriotic Youth Society was infiltrated by Communists, and dangerous. But the Viet Nam government, anxious to win the support of the Youth Society, released Trinh Van Minh...