Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, Louganis has lived his entire life in a sort of quiet terror. He was adopted by a San Diego bookkeeper and his wife, Peter and Frances Louganis, when he was nine months old. Because his biological father was Samoan, Greg had dark skin that targeted him as a "nigger"; because he was dyslexic and a stutterer, he was often called a "retard." While his mother encouraged him to take dancing classes, his father virtually ignored his "sissy" son. Growing up with all those stigmas would have been pure hell had the nine-year-old boy not discovered diving...
Lunchtime crowds of Cantabrigians and Harvard students ran in terror as the shots were fired, hiding. between cars, under tables and behind theconcrete benches outside the Dunster St. Au BonPain. No bystander injuries were reported...
...encounters reveals American pop-movie stars to be a bizarre and varied breed. The inevitable products of mass consensus in popular tastes and superficial public whims, these poor souls venture out into the world either basking in the public attention which sustains them, or else fleeing from it in terror. In the end though, one realizes the absurdity in all this manufactured fame, the perverse incongruity of ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations...
...been a problem for her husband and his colleagues in the African National Congress. During his 27 years in prison she was first a heroine of the antiapartheid movement and then an imperious rival to its leadership. The movement publicly condemned her in 1989 for inflicting a ``reign of terror'' on Soweto with her gang of bodyguards; she was later convicted of kidnapping. She now could pose a political threat to the President. Voicing her angry populism, she provides leadership to thousands of young, militant township dwellers who are impatient with a deliberative political process and cooperation with South Africa...
SHEIK OMAR ABDEL-RAHMAN Terror trial codefendant shifts plea to guilty and fingers...