Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ISABEL. Under the direction of Husband Paul Almond, Genevieve Bujold generates an air of adolescent terror in this chilling tale of a young girl growing rapidly to womanhood while tormented by the memories of another life...
...Tibet's 1,300,000 people have been exterminated, many by savage methods, since the first Peking general moved into Lhasa's Palace of the Gods. In a few cases, entire villages have been machine-gunned. So many still seek to escape the reign of terror by suicide that the Chinese have strung barbed-wire barricades along the banks of the Kyichu (River of Happiness) to keep people from throwing themselves in. At least 80,000 Tibetans, including the god-king Dalai Lama, have chosen exile. Another 200,000, including his deputy, the Panchen Lama, have been imprisoned...
...inhabitants died as it fell. The earthquake rumbled across the Iranian countryside, destroying 14 villages, and severely damaging another 16. The appalling toll: 10,988 dead, another 1,820 seriously injured and 91,000 homeless. For most of the week, a series of aftershocks kept the surviving population in terror. One tremor traveled 1,600 miles across Turkey to the Black Sea coast, snuffing out the lives of another 32 persons and injuring...
...their terror, such weapons are not the most frightening in the armory of the future. A new book titled Unless Peace Comes (Viking; $5.75), written by 16 scientists and scholars from six different countries, contends that man may soon be able to hurl nature itself at his foes. He could flood coastal cities with tidal waves and unleash uncontrollable hurricanes and earthquakes. A well-aimed, chemical-tipped rocket could puncture the atmosphere's ozone shield, loosing a flood of ultraviolet rays that would eventually kill all exposed life below...
Perhaps the worst aspect of CBW is the easy availability of its weapons. While the nuclear club remains relatively exclusive, nuclear arms can continue to provide a built-in deterrent-a balance of terror that restrains nuclear powers from starting a war in which winner and loser alike will figuratively glow in the dark. Members of the CBW club may soon multiply. And their very number could vastly increase the possibility that one of them could be tempted to exercise CBW's awful power...