Word: terrorizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Immediately after the ceremony, Shultz flew off to a surprising destination: Nicaragua, whose Sandinista government Ronald Reagan has consistently assailed as a "reign of terror" dedicated to exporting Communist revolution to the region. For 2½ hours the Secretary of State conferred with Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra at Managua's airport. After the obligatory photos, Ortega swung his chair around so as to face Shultz. Though aides were present, Shultz and Ortega did almost all the talking...
...Whoever plans and carries out terror operations of this kind should not expect to come away alive," he said. In fact, it has long been Israeli policy not to kill captured terrorists, partly as an incentive to them not to fight to the end and to prevent retaliation against Israeli soldiers in Arab hands. Interrogation also often provides leads about other guerrilla activities...
Both see the current balance of terror-"offense-dominated nuclear deterrence"-as the moral equivalent of slavery and call for its abolition. Hence the 19th century resonance of Schell's title, The Abolition, and Dyson's description of the nuclear arsenal in Weapons and Hope as "a manifestly evil institution deeply embedded in the structure of our society." Hence also the common weakness in their arguments: slavery, whatever it may have meant to the economy and social order of nations, had little to do with their security; nuclear weapons, however perverse the argument for having them, are intimately...
...popularization of the demonstration seemed to correspond with a decline in the terror of all but a dedicated core of participants. B-1983, students were marching to save. Harvard's Ivy, and the University felt comfortable enough to retire a t-shirt with the demands of the 1969 strikers printed on it to the University Archives...
...Terror, therefore, that I would soon be found out. It would be only a matter of time before I tripped so badly that my inadequacies would be revealed to the world, particularly to the deans in University Hall...