Word: terrorizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Westerners, the Palestinian stance may seem hopelessly wrongheaded and self-destructive. After all, a return to terrorism by the P.L.O. tends to undermine Sadat, even though he has maintained steadfastly that he would make no deal with the Israelis without a provision for some sort of Palestinian homeland on the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinians simply do not believe him, apparently, and their present view is born of a rising desperation. "They are running out of space," reports Correspondent Brelis. "Having been expelled from Jordan by King Hussein in the early 1970s, they find themselves no longer welcome...
Once the ride of terror began, moreover, the usual Israeli talent for inventive tactics seemed somehow to collapse. There were no smokescreens laid across the highway, and only one feeble attempt was made to force the hijacked bus to stop. Not until the captured bus hit a stretch of highway seeded with nails outside Tel Aviv were the terrorists and their hostages stopped by a blockade hastily erected by police who had been alerted to the hijacking...
...first, kidnaping was the prime instrument of terror: plant managers, executives and judges were abducted, subjected to humiliating "people's trials," and then released. In 1974 came the first murders; one of the victims was the chief inspector of the antiterrorist squad in Turin. Curcio was arrested in September of that year, tried and imprisoned, then sprung in a daring 1975 commando raid led by his wife. A few months later, Comrade Mara was killed in a police Shootout. In 1976 Curcio was recaptured in a Milan apartment...
...hostages now numbered 71, and the police were on the trail. The bus approached one hastily erected checkpoint and careened right through it. Then, just outside Tel Aviv, police set up a roadblock, seeded the highway with nails, and positioned themselves alongside. There the wild trail of terror finally came to an end. By that time, reported TIME Correspondent David Halevy, who was the only reporter on the scene, "the highway looked like a slaughterhouse. It was worse than anything I saw at the school shot up by terrorists in Ma'alot...
...Knoxes were born at a happy conjunction of piety and humanity. Grandfather George Knox had been a holy terror, a Low Church Anglican minister who tried to flog the hell out of his sons. Grandfather Thomas French, in Fitzgerald's words, "was a saint ... and as exasperating as all saints," a gifted linguist and longtime missionary to India who would squat in the marketplace of Agra reading the Bible to lepers. But when Edmund Knox, sire of the four brothers, took the cloth, it was of a different cut. The tireless worker for his soot-stained Midlands flocks eventually...