Word: terrorizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week, using a sledgehammer to bludgeon their way into the house. In one bedroom they found Louisa Sharrah and proceeded to bind her arms with plastic cuffs and strike her with a metal flashlight. The men woke her young children and held them at gunpoint as they screamed in terror. Then the invaders kicked in the door to the bedroom where Foote, a 23-year-old construction worker, and his girlfriend, Wright, a 19-year-old college student, had been sleeping. Gunfire erupted as the men forced in the door. From his bed, Foote fired a 9-mm handgun...
...REIGN OF TERROR...
Roger Rosenblatt only touched on the tragedy that befell the Cambodian people at the hands of Pol Pot and his followers [ESSAY, Aug. 18]. It's difficult to imagine the hardship and cruelty that Cambodians endured during Pol Pot's reign of terror. But Rosenblatt apparently let his imagination run wild when he blamed the U.S. bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War as the destabilizing influence that allowed Pol Pot to flourish. I could have sworn we were bombing the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops that sought refuge in Cambodia after attacking our own troops in South Vietnam...
Several times a week, a nerve-shattering siren reverberates across the island of Montserrat. It is an urgent warning for people to drop whatever they are doing and head north. But there is not much farther north to go, and the terror among local residents is palpable. The Caribbean island's volcano, belching, smoking, fuming for two years now, is giving hints of a cataclysmic blow, as the dark, telltale cloud of white-hot debris shoots high into the sky. "It's the first thing you see when you wake up and the last thing you see when...
Bravo to Charles Krauthammer for asking why Israel should continue to negotiate with the Palestinians who utilize terror and violence [ESSAY, Aug. 11]! Someone finally has the nerve to tell it like it is. Let the U.S. send a message to Yasser Arafat that neither we nor Israel will deal with him or any other Palestinian until he controls the terrorists and ends their attacks, suicide or otherwise. ALLEN SOKOLOFF Bensalem...