Word: terrorizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What the people tell is a far different story. According to some Metalio residents, Rivas and his crew make up one of the country's dreaded escuadrones de la muerte, or death squads, responsible for more than 200 killings during the past four years. The terror comes not just from the horrible ways in which people die, but from the utter randomness of who is killed. Motives can range from suspicion of "subversion" to jealousy over a girlfriend to settling a grudge to no reason at all. Fear has bullied Metalio into an eerily subdued place of whispers...
...dispensing the good tidings of ever more effective treatment, both books serve to dispel the paralyzing terror that the very word cancer engenders. As Curtis Bill Pepper points out, for early detection people must shed their fears sufficiently to go for routine cancer checkups. Once a diagnosis of malignancy has been made, the afflicted may have to take aggressive action. This could involve collisions between the patient and his family doctor and a tough-minded struggle for an appointment with an appropriate oncologist at one of the "comprehensive cancer centers" such as New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering...
...West Bank, the cycle of terror and retribution seems unbreakable. Late last week, sources close to Israeli military authorities disclosed that more than 20 people were arrested in connection with an attempt to plant bombs under six Arab buses. Some of the vehicles had been chartered to take worshipers to an Islamic festival. An Israeli defense ministry official said that the suspects had long been under surveillance, and that some were caught in the act of placing the bombs. Authorities believe that their actions were planned as retaliation for a series of terrorist acts in Israel, including the April...
...reserve officers in the Israel Defense Forces. The police hope that the arrests may shed some light on earlier attacks on Arabs, including the June 1980 bombings that maimed two West Bank mayors. Of the foiled bus attack, Interior Minister Yosef Burg said, "Thank God, the disaster was prevented. Terror produces more terror...
...numerous confessionals in the film, the only one which nears full development is Pete's. In one of the movie's few captivating scenes, in which a crazed and doped out Pete threatens to kill Betty, Bridges gives us a fleeting glimpse into the terror and paranoia that plague Phillip throughout the film. However, because we know so little about him aside from his penchant for snorting cocaine, the scene seems somehow out of place...