Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Viet Cong terrorism grows ever wider in South Viet Nam. Recognizing the danger posed by the Allied pacification drive to win over and secure the rural villages of South Viet Nam, the Viet Cong are now concentrating on a campaign of terror against the country's 35,600 pacification workers. Since January, they have killed 233 workers, wounded 320 and kidnaped another 42. Last week alone, they killed ten pacification workers, but they were not ignoring the rest of the populace either. In the week that ended May 13, Viet Cong terrorists murdered 85 civilians, wounded 97 and abducted...
...city council was slow to get the message. Then Shrotel resigned. At the same time, the city was in growing terror of a rapist-strangler who had claimed three victims (TIME, Oct. 21).* Major crime was up more than 25% over the previous year. "Just what the hell is going on around here?" thundered Republican City Councilman Jake Held. "What we used to call a crime wave is now accepted as a way of life. This is intolerable." Held opened a six-week hearing. At the end of it, he had some inescapably specific suggestions for the city council...
...pledge-at least as long as it lived. The Chuck-Walla was one of in numerable fly-by-night newspapers that flourished on the Western frontier. Their exuberant, quarrelsome editors are now a forgotten breed. But, as Author John Myers Myers (The Alamo, San Francisco's Reign of Terror) makes clear, they were as much a fixture of the 19th century Western scene as outlaws and lawmen. Some Westerners were as passionate about putting out a paper as others were about accumulating cattle or prospecting for gold...
Ideally, of course, the police should not have to use force and terror to make an impression. Social agencies should be able to instill gang youth with respect for law and order. But the fact is that in "hard core" cases the social agencies, by their own admission, have failed. As a result, the police have a problem: the ghetto youth, whose life has repeatedly taught him to respect only physical power, has only limited respect for the powerless policeman. Part of the answer to gang crime, then, is a reevaluation of the "be tough" policy. Putting these youths...
...under strong pressure to vote. Unquestionably, though, it takes brave men to run for office in Highland or Delta hamlets where every peasant knows that the Viet Cong are lurking just beyond the nearest paddy. The fact that the Vietnamese turn out so strongly in the face of terror-and sometimes end up marking their ballot with their own blood-shows that the candidates' courage does not go unappreciated...