Word: terrorizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West Germany's Red Army Faction. Only hours before Audran's killing, three 230-ft. electric-power pylons at a nuclear-power plant near Hamburg were damaged by explosives. Also last week a suspected Red Army Faction member, Johannes Thimme, 28, became the first casualty of the new terror campaign: he was killed when a bomb he was carrying in a baby carriage detonated prematurely in Stuttgart...
...forces of the Palestine Liberation Organization that were cited as Israel's justification for the invasion of 1982, code-named Operation Peace for Galilee. Government officials also explained that the withdrawal might free Israeli forces for more effective action in the border region. Declared Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin: "No terror organization will be able to establish itself as the P.L.O. did in the south of Lebanon. We will not allow such a thing, even if it means bombing from the air or entering Lebanon for limited military operations...
...letter. She stunned an elderly Russian woman, an emigre, by writing to her, "You are a KGB agent. You are a double and triple agent." As Svetlana well knew, it was the kind of denunciation that was made against tens of thousands of innocent people during Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s. Says the recipient of the letter: "She would have executed me had she possessed the power...
...suggesting that we no longer resign ourselves to the existence of 50,000 nuclear charges in the superpowers' arsenals and the perverse confidence that a balance of terror will prevent any of them from ever going off. The President imagined a time when those weapons could be rendered "impotent and obsolete" by deploying an array of kinetic-energy projectiles, lasers, directed particle beams or other exotic devices that would prevent enemy warheads from ever reaching their targets. No more threat of intercontinental mass homicide, no more superpower suicide pact, no more Mutual Assured Destruction. In place of that MADness would...
...Brother could have been alive or dead, a man or a god, an ex-socialist or an ex-capitalist. The main thing is, the society Orwell portrays has no real politics; it is just a system of lies and terror which has lost any raison d'etre besides self-perpetuation. And this situation is not all that dissimilar from what we say last year all over the globe and here at home...