Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latest effort to mediate the conflict was sparked by what appears to be the imminent collapse of Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam's regime. Mengistu, whose 14-year reign of terror rivals that of Saddam Hussein, has been written off before, only to survive. But since late April, when Tigrean- led Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front guerrillas pushed as far south as Ambo, putting almost all of northern Ethiopia in rebel hands, the consensus has been that Mengistu is a goner. "It brought home that the 30- year seesaw of rebel victories and then government victories had irretrievably dipped...
...Terror is back in style in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Gone are those brief days after the war when, with Saddam looking totally vulnerable, open dissent as well as outright rebellion flared. With the unrest now almost fully suppressed, dreams of a new regime in Iraq have given way to the old hopelessness and fear. Saddam promises democracy and greater freedom of expression, but the Iraqi people expect only despotism. Asked about anti- Saddam demonstrations in March, a Baghdad taxi driver replies, "You cannot ask such questions in this country. If I talk to you, the police will come...
Saddam ends his seclusion, and terror is again in style in Iraq...
Watching the FBI's behavioral-science unit actually at work is a far cry from seeing it depicted in the current hit thriller The Silence of the Lambs. In the film, agent trainee Clarice Starling, played by Jodie Foster, matches wits and quips with toothsome terror Hannibal ("the Cannibal") Lecter and chases down molting madman Buffalo Bill, right into his creepy lair. In real life, behavioral-science agents remain largely deskbound at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., hunkered down in a windowless converted bomb shelter 18 m (60 ft.) below ground. But the film is right on target...
...face of the formation of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Onanism Group? Why has there been no fury over posters advertising Hillel's Sodomy Brunch? Administrators refuse to tackle this P.C. minority group for fear of being labeled Ponucally incorrect. In doing so, nowever, they support the regain of terror that Hillel's "radical faction," as Webb accurately names it, holds over those members of this campus who do maintain traditional moral values. What of the knife fights which "traditionally" (read: only at 74 Mt. Auburn St.) accompany the eve of the Jewish New Year? We don't want to deny...