Word: terrorized
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...take revenge against Obote's supporters. The homes of two former ministers were looted and burned, including the house of the man who headed one of Obote's most dreaded police units. Obote, who has been charged with killing more than 100,000 people in a campaign of terror, has fled to Nairobi...
...R.A.F. is the successor to the Baader-Meinhof gang, which terrorized West Germany in the 1970s with a series of politically inspired murders, kidnapings and armed robberies. Only last month West German Federal Prosecutor Kurt Rebmann called the R.A.F. "the most dangerous organization in West Germany." He described its potential for terror as "un-diminished and acute." West German authorities say that since last December the group and allied gangs have carried out 156 bombing and arson attacks...
...another terrorist suspect was arrested on the outskirts of Rome. According to unconfirmed Italian press reports, one hijacker told Genoa investigators that Abul Abbas had masterminded their operation. He also reportedly said that Abul Abbas had promised to spring the four terrorists from prison, threatening to stage kidnaping and terror attacks in Italy if necessary. At week's end a warrant for Abbas was issued, but he was still at large . --By Jill Smolowe. Reported by Dean Fischer/Cairo and Judith Harris/Rome
...dukedom, who is orphaned during the London blitz and sent off to the uncertain care of a sodden New York City tabloid reporter. Within weeks the boy becomes the target of a Mafia hit man, thereby allowing the author to mix sociology and satire, goofy narrative and authentic terror...
...hardly give us the key to evil and genius, which are, after all, not physical but cultural phenomena. The problem is one of categories. Was Lenin a genius? Who is to say? In another culture, perhaps, a case could be made that the brain of the man who introduced terror as a routine instrument of governance is to be studied for insights into criminality...