Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such pictures are hardly ever balanced out by coverage of the Viet Cong's far more common tactics of terror and brutality, for the very good reason that the Communists want no photographers around. Since the beginning of 1964, some 2,700 Vietnamese government officials have been killed or kidnaped by the Viet Cong while trying to go about their civilian duties. Another 9,000 Vietnamese peasants were killed or kidnaped last year alone, though they had no connection whatsoever with the government. The kidnaped are usually forced into Viet Cong military service or labor gangs. The dead...
...doctor will not be bandied about," and the British Medical Association rushed out a warning to all doctors not to publish anything about their dead patients without the family's consent. Asked Daily Mail Columnist Bernard Levin: "Who was it that said biography had added a new terror to death...
...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. In a small, poignant masterwork from Czechoslovakia, Nazi terror eventually poisons the friendship between a warmhearted old Jewess (Ida Kamińska) and a decent Aryan nonentity (Josef KrÓner) whose courage falters under stress...
...circus has 17 new acts, but the biggest one is not in the center ring but in the audience. To the throngs of children, the 96-year-old show is all fresh and new. Their thrills of terror at the acrobats are genuine, their laughter at the clowns unforced and free. And as the lights go out and they swing their souvenir flashlights on strings ("Only a dolleranaquardagitemnow!"), they make a thousand circles of light in the arena -a Spine-Tingling Superlative Spectacle that Old Man Ringling would have paid a fortune for and kids can see for No Additional...
...explosion of incredible force. Preposterous, snorts the Minister of War. Waltz obligingly blasts the top off a nearby mountain. Proclaiming an era of universal peace (and general slavery), he seizes the reins of government from the numbed fingers of a gabbling, gasping Cabinet, promptly mounts a demented reign of terror. He responds to an attempted assassination by blowing up a city of 600,000. Weary of ruling, he orders an entire island evacuated and a colossal pleasure palace built there, in which the walls spout frosted-drink faucets, and his bed, at the flick of a button, will glide...