Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years of his five-year tenure in exile. As he goes about the business of remaking the government, Aristide has never stopped preaching the gospel of reconciliation, often to the dismay of followers who want revenge for the estimated 3,000 people murdered during the military's reign of terror. American officials still express frustration that he does not always bow to U.S. wishes, but they are encouraged by his willingness to listen and talk. "He's a real politician now," says an American who met privately with Aristide. "Before, he was antagonistic. Now he's genuinely seeking out advice...
That attitude has helped change the way the country is run. Aristide has fired the notorious chefs de section, the rural military strongmen who ruled vast areas of rural Haiti like medieval fiefdoms, terrorizing villagers with their raw power. Some hang on, but this is a first step toward whittling them down. Another important step was taken last week when the Senate fine-tuned a new law designed to establish a 4,000-man police force removed from army control. But Aristide has yet to reform the judiciary fully or settle on a mechanism for dealing with those responsible...
Computer vandals strike terror on the Internet...
...picture the scene. On a hot, sticky night in a dark Puerto-Rican club, a new dance emerges: "La Bobbitt." Women gyrate down to their partners' waists, mimicking a pair of scissors with their fingers. They begin to mime a "snip-snip" action as the male recoils in terror. Better than Voguing! Banda Gorda makes a killing...
...goes When about it in a much more blunt manner. When his employees, Cornelius and Barnaby, (played by Michael DeVries and Cory English, respectively) ask for one night a week off, he displays his tightwad mentality by absolutely refusing and threatening to fire them. Vandergelder's employees live in terror of him; after taking an afternoon off without permission, they're constantly afraid he will catch them, a fear which is realized...