Word: terrorizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nevertheless, Porter has been a terror on the field...
Rwandans packed into Kigali's hotels, huddling in the dark hallways without food or beds, hoping the few foreigners there would protect them. Their terror only increased as the foreigners slipped away. At a hilltop compound for the insane, a group of Belgian nuns and lay brothers abandoned 200 of their patients in a desperate rush to escape. For days the clinic had been surrounded by bands of machete-armed Hutu men. The foreigners had little doubt about the future of their patients or the 500 Tutsis who had come for refuge $ from the fighting outside. "They're finished," said...
...Rwanda, another disaster unfolds as the United Nations stands idly by. Racial fighting on an immense scale has proceeded in and outside of Kigali, the capital city, while only private relief organizations have aided civilians. Has the terror in the former Yugoslavia tied the U.N.'s hands completely...
...details of Hitler's terror against the Jews seeped out from Nazi-occupied Europe, American Jews begged federal officials to help. The bureaucrat in charge of immigration, Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long, was both anti-Semitic and obsessed by fears that European refugees might be security risks. In a 1940 memo he argued that Jews could be kept out of the U.S. by "advising our consuls to put every obstacle in the way, which would postpone and postpone and postpone the granting of visas...
After all, surely many of you now realize that Singapore is a city-state in which no one fears crime and lawlessness. I am quite certain that the few of you law-abiding Americans could use a break from fleeing the gangs of Los Angeles and running in terror from the squeegie men of New York. Why not take that vacation in Singapore...