Word: terrorizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remarks were taken by some listeners, however, as criticism of supposed Jewish meekness in the face of Nazi terror...
...onetime neofascist student leader, Firmenich, 36, virtually inaugurated the brutal period of terror and counterterror that became known as Argentina's "dirty war." In 1970 he and a small group of colleagues won instant fame by kidnaping and murdering a former Argentine provisional President, Army General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu. The justification: "anti-imperialism." Eventually, Firmenich declared an underground guerrilla war against the incompetent regime of then President María Estela Martinez de Perón, better known as "Isabelita...
...scapegoat for the faults and failures of the Khomeini regime. The drastic deterioration in the economic conditions of life that has resulted from the reactionary policies of the regime are attributed to the war. Likewise, Khomeini's immense propaganda machine attributes the lack of political freedom, the atmosphere of terror and the ruthless suppressive measures that enforce the regime's hold on power to emergency conditions supposedly created...
...smoldered on nearly every block. Shattered glass and chunks of masonry lay everywhere. At the American University Hospital, doctors raced to make room for the rush of wounded, while the morgues quickly filled up. An estimated 300 people died, and 1,000 were injured in the latest round of terror...
...Their religion places great stress on industriousness, peacefulness and obedience to the law. In Iran, however, Baha'is are not only unwanted but actively persecuted. Since the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini came to power in 1979, Iran's 300,000 Baha'is have suffered a reign of terror in the land where their faith was born. In the latest of many protests, the State Department's annual human rights report stated last week that believers "suffer from imprisonment, torture and execution" at the hands of the government...