Word: units
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard managed only 14 shots on a goal against a Brown (now 2-4-2) unit built on the 'best offense is a good defense' theory. Only five of the Crimson missiles found the general vicinity of the twines, and, c'est la vie, all were repelled successfully...
...democracies lack any coherent ideological or political goals. Violence is the attraction?the end, not the means. Notes Brian Jenkins, an associate director at Rand Corp.: "The act of terror itself is an ideology." Harvey Schlossberg, a psychiatrist who trains the New York City Police Department's anti-terrorist unit, contends that many urban terrorists are compensating for inadequate personalities. "If they cry and stamp their feet, no one pays attention. But by taking hostages, in a matter of minutes the whole world is watching. This helps overcome their ego deficit." What motivates many terrorists, observes University of Munich Political...
...furthermore, the P.L.O. was utterly humiliated by Jordan's King Hussein when he threw them out of his country in the "Black September" of 1970. But subsequent terrorist acts contributed to the P.L.O.'s high profile and credibility, at least within the Arab world, as an anti-Zionist fighting unit. Other nationalist terrorist organizations have gained recognition in much the same...
...Bonn, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, backed by his Cabinet and by opposition leaders, alerted Grenzschutzgruppe 9 (G.S.G. 9), the elite commando unit of West Germany's Border Protection Force. Thirty members of the unit left immediately for Cyprus aboard a Lufthansa 707, Flight 1231. But Flight 1231, in a near miss, arrived at Larnaca just as Flight 181 was taking off. Flight 1231 flew to Ankara to await further instructions, while the hijacked plane flew on to Bahrain and Dubai...
...defense really sorted things out and began playing more like a unit," Wood said. "We just really played well...