Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, terror-driven stoppages may be a sign that the regulatory system is working. The New York delay, for instance, could be seen as an appropriate reaction to an ever more hostile world. Two weeks earlier the Federal Aviation Administration, citing worries about increased terrorist activity, had put all the nation's airports on Level 2 of a four-level terrorism-alert system developed after the Gulf War. New York, where an alleged terrorist was recently arrested, had reason for special concern...
Similarly, Ronald Reagan felt it justified to risk American lives to oust Manuel Noriega. Reagan's media correspondents justified the war by claiming that Noriega was involved in drug trafficing, human rights violations and the abusive control of power through a squad of thugs who enforced a reign of terror. The validity of some of these claims is supported by empirical evidence. In hindsight, however, it seems all too apparent that the battle was fought because the interests of American merchants were being threatened...
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This atmosphere passed, but 200 years later a similar dementia prevails. Its obsessive objects this time are not the Terror in France and the war between France and England, as they were in 1793. They are moral--or, to be more exact, they are about the rhetoric of morality...
...leaders, and Peretz would do well as a member of the Harvard faculty, and as a Jew, to broaden his moral vision and admit that when a Jew tortures, when a Jew abducts a citizen from his or her home, when a Jew serves his state through terror, that Jew is no better than a fascist of any other faith. Peter S. Temes Preceptor, Expository Writing Program Instructor, "Moral Principles...