Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those sad, waiting parents, the terror was not over. Children's Hospital received a bomb threat. They faced the awful decision: evacuate, or hope it was the cruelest of hoaxes. Parents who were stunned and grateful to learn their babies had survived the disaster were unwilling to leave them again. When hospital officials ordered evacuation, the most seriously injured children and the doctors and nurses caring for them remained behind...
...senator also expressed concern over the widespread dissemination of information about how to commit acts of terror. He cited Mayben manuals, which he said outline how to make bombs, and Internet postings which he said describe how to recreate the Oklahoma tragedy...
Three national publications -- The New YorkTimes,TimeandNewsweek-- are now struggling with an offer from theso-called Unabomber: publish a long article detailing his views, and he'll end his 17-year terror campaign. ButPenthousemay take them off the hook. TIME New York correspondent Jenifer Mattos reports that Bob Guccione, chairman of General Media International, on Thursday issued an open letter to the Unabom suspect offering to publish the 37,000-word manuscript himself inPenthouse,OMNIor another magazine he owns "in the hope that it will receive the widest possible dissemination by the media so we can save lives." Guccione told...
...NERVE GAS IN THE TOKYO subway attack spotlights our increasing vulnerability to high-tech terror acts by fringe groups that are escalating their acts of violence. Our only safeguards against these threats are vastly improved intelligence sources and basic security measures, all of which we seem to regard as more expensive than our system can afford. Accordingly we shrug and go on with our lives, accepting the risk. But why continue to spend vast sums on absurd military projects when the same funds could protect us from a real threat? America's military planners are not just wasting money...
REVIEWING YOUR CHART "CATALOG OF Terror,'' showing weapons that terrorists could use, I concluded that toxic biological and chemical materials, threatening instant injury and death, pose a far greater risk than radioactive materials. The latter are more difficult to obtain and deliver to a population in a dose strong enough to cause significant injury. If people had more accurate information about the relatively small risk from nuclear radiation, there would be less fear of it, and radiological materials could be removed from your catalog...