Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Good Sense." The agents will eventually total 90 and work in all of Viet Nam's 43 provinces-none of which can yet be described as totally free from terror. After four weeks of in tensive study of rice production in the Philippines and Taiwan, they will get special instruction in booby traps and, if they request it, weaponry when they reach Viet Nam. Only then will they be ready to go out among the Vietnamese peasants, who make up 85% of the country's 14 million population...
...however manifestly idiotic, is forthrightly condemned." Small wonder. Past critics were thoroughly cowed and browbeaten, not unjustly, for their classic misjudgments, beginning with the scorn neaped on Manet's Olympia and culminating in the ridicule showered on the impressionists, the Fauves and the cubists. Critics now live in terror of seeming square. The trouble is, as one anticritic remarked, they are now saying more and more about less and less. That includes some museum officials who are critics as well. Describing a box by Richard Artschwaser, Ralph T. Coe of Kansas City's Nelson Gallery wrote: "The cheeselike...
Needed Propping. Though Jadid & Co. despise Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser for his "softness" and seek by their export of terror to take over his leadership, Syria has nonetheless been forced to cooperate with him. But even Egypt, long the revolutionary center of the Middle East, feels nervous about Damascus' rabid adventurism. In order to prevent a major war from growing out of Syria's madness, Nasser signed a mutual defense pact with Syria last November that demands consultation before any major attack on another country. The fact is that Syria's military is too weak...
...Civilian Casualties. Killing civilians for the purposes of terror and demoralization is morally indefensible, all theologians and moral philosophers agree, violating the just-war principle of discrimination. The conditions of warfare in which a factory can be as much of a military installation as an airfield has created inevitable new hazards for noncombatants. And Mao Tse-tung's dictum, "There is no profound difference between the farmer and the soldier," underlies the special problems created by guerrilla warfare. The U.S. is not deliberately trying to destroy and demoralize civilians; it is guerrilla tactics and terror that attempt this. Writes...
...this atmosphere of terror and intransigence that Gowon had to fight for negotiations. His success was no small achievement. And the conference undoubtedly accomplished much. It relieved at least temporarily the accumulating tensions that seemed to be driving Nigeria toward civil war. It also brought an agreement to hold further talks, this time in Nigeria...