Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slaves of the lower Antilles once revolted against the overlords of that tribe. Bodies were mangled and terror reigned over the otherwise peaceful isles. But within a few weeks after the initial uprising a representative of the ignorant slaves (who by that time were armed and immensely powerful) pleaded with the young son of a defunct overlord that the slaves might return to their former bondage. The young boy who had been educated in England did not want the slaves back. The angry savages killed the lad on the spot and mangled his body...
...threat is convincing-but only so long as a potential enemy accepts its basic premise. What if he decides that his scientists and engineers have built a practically perfect defense so that he will not be wiped out by a retaliatory attack? This would obviously disturb the "balance of terror" that has preserved an uneasy nuclear peace for the past two decades. Some American military men argue that any "defensive" Russian ABM system may actually be a sign of belligerence, a signal that its builders are preparing to make the first strike, while getting ready to ride...
...Viet Cong, since they would lay down their arms while the South Vietnamese army would not do so. After 20 years of successful revolutionary and guerrilla warfare, they are apparently simply to give up. They could then look forward to a terroristic repression modeled on the Diemist terror of the 50's. But the Viet Cong have no reason to capitulate and lay down their arms since they have, in fact, not been defeated. Don't you think, then, Ambassador Goldberg, that it would be necessary for the U.S. to develop more realistic goals before our case for negotiations...
...press, freeing political prisoners and rooting out corrupt officials. They spared the country a bloodbath by singling out only the most culpable of Nkrumah's followers for punishment. Said General Joseph Ankrah, 51, the N.L.C.'s leader: "I did not depose Nkrumah to institute another reign of terror. We can be tough, but we are civilized...
...subject. In a fragment of a 12th century tympanum, or semicircular panel atop a doorway, the Apostles appear garbed in ordinary robes, looking toward the missing figure of God. The significance lies in the stark mortality of Matthew, Peter, Paul and John, portrayed like any common men before the terror of God. The 13th century Gothic period was more orderly than awestruck. A stained-glass lancet window shows Christ's passion in five panels set in an interlace of jewel-like embroidery. Christ ascends toward heaven by vignettes-from betrayal, to entombment. Later, as the terror of the apocalypse...