Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...economic summit in Lyons, France, last week, Secretary of State Warren Christopher dismissed the idea that the monarchy was threatened. "This is a solid and stable government," he insisted. "Saudi Arabia's stability," says another senior official, "is always a concern, but the fact that this group resorted to terror, not a popular demonstration," indicates it is small and weak. Comparisons to Iran under the Shah, this official says, are mistaken. "There aren't large-scale demonstrations, a regime losing its will to govern or a vocal charismatic leader in exile...
...Patrick P. Fennig, 34, an F-15 crew chief, was killed in the explosion at the Khobar Towers compound. "None of us," Fennig said, "have a problem with the mission." The families of other service members who died echoed that sentiment, and U.S. officials insisted that the act of terror would not deter the U.S. from fulfilling its mission in Saudi Arabia and around the Persian Gulf. In the aftermath of last week's deaths, however, it is appropriate to ask what exactly that mission is and whether the U.S. is carrying it out in the most sensible manner...
...eyes seek out approval. Her charm is palpable, her graciousness as carefully applied as her glue-gun red lipstick. Yet when a journalist prepares to ask her a question, she tenses up as though waiting for a blow. Her answers are often so resolutely bland as to suggest a terror of revealing anything human. Her relentless and self-confessed perfectionism seems to hide a fear of being perceived as something less than the sum of her resume. Why does a woman who has been Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Labor (the only woman ever to hold two Cabinet positions...
...dream of Nobel Peace Prize-winning Labor leader Shimon Peres, who promised a New Middle East crafted of compromise, or to heed the warnings of Netanyahu, who spoke the word fear 11 times in the candidates' 30-min. debate to remind voters that Israel must first defeat the terror still stalking their streets? Could peace treaties with existential enemies protect Jews from the dangers of sacrificing territory? Was this the moment to hurry the peace process up or slow it down...
Peres and Rabin suggested something almost heroic--in the middle of terror activity, of hostility, to come and present a vision of an abstract idea like peace. Of course, the reality was much more concrete and bloody. But the greatness of Rabin and Peres was that they said we are strong enough now to be a little weaker, to take a calculated risk...