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Word: threats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Program, a secret, often illegal FBI campaign of surveillance and sabotage against a wide variety of right-and left-wing groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Panthers and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Not until 1971, a year before his death, did Hoover, alarmed by the threat of exposure, suspend the program. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence exposed the full scope of COINTELPRO'S partly unconstitutional mission in 1975, but only last week did the full extent of the FBI's dirty tricks become public. Reporters from eight news organizations, who had demanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: FBI Dirty Tricks | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...entity should have the right to determine their political status, such as independence with full sovereignty, continued federation with Jordan (53% of whose population is Palestinian) or with Israel. Whatever the choice, Israel -and Jordan-must have assurances that the new entity will not become a threat to the stability of its neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Toward a Just Peace | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...committee of four heavyweights in the University hierarchy formulated the guidelines, apparently the first of their kind in the country, and declared in a report in May that relationships with the CIA could pose "a serious threat to the independence and integrity of the academic community" if they continued without regulation...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Harvard: A Threat To Privacy | 12/3/1977 | See Source »

...between a detachment of U.S. Marines and a band of Nicaraguan insurgents under the leadership of General Augusto C. Sandino. The Marines formed part of an occupation force dispatched to this Central American nation by President Calvin Coolidge in order to put an end to civil disturbances and the threat these posed to U.S. property and strategic interests. Sandino, a military commander, had refused to accept the political settlement imposed on Nicaragua by the U.S. He vowed to continue the struggle until the last Yankee soldier left Nicaragua, and for six years he battled the Marines while gaining international prominence...

Author: By Juan Valdez, | Title: Nicaragua: The Legacy of Somoza and Sandino | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...tense days came and went, there were no incidents more serious than flight delays of up to 20 minutes caused by Lufthansa's preboarding passenger inspections. Later, a second letter, delivered to news agencies in Paris, announced that "we will not hijack any more aircraft," but repeated the threat to "blow up" airplanes when "capitalist profiteers and lackeys" are aboard. "We will also hit them," the letter said, "in their homes, cafés, clubs, movies, at gala occasions and in their financial fortresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISM: Mogadishu's Aftermath (Contd.) | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

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