Word: terrorizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Funny, perhaps, but sad too. The fear of terror in the skies and on the earth is so great that a self-starting shaver can be taken for a bomb. And that is how it is in relations between the Soviet Union and the U.S. We see warheads jutting from each other's baggage, and we live in mutual fear...
...awareness." Yet some right-wing groups are unhappy too, claiming that the mini-series is too soft on the Soviets. Says Reed Irvine, head of Accuracy in Media: "There is a total lack of realism about what a Soviet occupation is really like, no evidence of a reign of terror...
...Terror strikes us both. He offers to go first. I let him, hoping I can study his reading and improve upon it. But my turn comes, and I am sure my reading is just as bad, only I stumble in different places. The director, of course, compliments us both. The entire ordeal lasts less than five minutes...
...abductions brought to eight the number of Americans known to be held in Lebanon. Ironically, the episode that sparked the new wave of terror appeared to be the Jan. 13 arrest in Frankfurt, West Germany, of a Lebanese suspect in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner and the subsequent murder of a U.S. Navy diver. The kidnapings also coincided with the latest mission to Beirut by Anglican Emissary Terry Waite, his first since it was revealed last November that the U.S. had sold weapons to Iran in exchange for hostages held by pro- Iranian groups in Lebanon...
...Iranscam, "my credibility has not been affected as a negotiator." Perhaps not. But as the list of hostages continued to lengthen, even in the face of delicate negotiations and secret deals, more than a few government leaders had to be wondering exactly what could be done to end the terror...