Word: terrors
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Over the past several years, Spanish lawyers have presented an investigating magistrate with reams of evidence documenting that forces under Pinochet's command were responsible for acts of murder, torture, kidnapping and international terrorism. Moreover, they have presented the Spanish magistrate with newly available evidence showing that this campaign of terror was directed by the dictator himself. In response, the magistrate issued indictments against Pinochet, and put out the international arrest warrant that led to his detention...
...special license to hurl hateful epithets that stigmatize good people for life [DIVIDING LINE, Aug. 30]. Indeed, this piece has set us all on a perilous course. Who will have the courage to enter this vital debate? Is a new version of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror upon us--with reputations, rather than heads, falling? D.L. COBURN Dallas...
...anti-Baptist? Police took several hours to take a look at his body, fearing that the corpse was booby-trapped, and they do not yet know whether he had a license for his weapon, an NRA bumper sticker on his car, or the membership card of some atheist terror cell...
...drawn mostly from Asian countries. And ending the violence in the territory will be their most dangerous mission since the Vietnam war. The operation's primary task will be to disarm the anti-independence militias who, assisted by elements of the Indonesian military, continued Wednesday with a campaign of terror against a civilian population that also now faces mass starvation. The mission's success will depend in large part on the fate of the Indonesian military units in East Timor - there is no provision for withdrawing those units in the current agreement, and they're unlikely to roll...
...Berlin. Yet, amid a massive security clampdown following two apartment bombings that killed almost 300 people in Moscow, the prevailing mood is more resigned than defiant. "There?s an overwhelming sense here of powerlessness and very little faith in the government?s ability to protect citizens from acts of terror," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "People are depressed and demoralized but have nowhere to look for help...