Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...favor a gradual, pluralistic approach to socialism. On the other were the well-organized orthodox Communists, who seek to impose total control over the country. For the moment, the political momentum plainly belonged to the moderates. In the north and central regions, Portugal's conservative Roman Catholics staged violent assaults against one local Communist headquarters after another (see color opposite). The attacks were eloquent reminders of the depths of anti-Communist feeling among a majority of Portuguese...
From the beginning, the irony of the whole political crisis has been that India's violent lurch toward totalitarian rule has stemmed from the most trivial of cases. Mrs. Gandhi was convicted in June on two charges of electoral abuse during her re-election to Parliament in 1971. The conviction would have disbarred her from Parliament and disqualified her from holding elective office for six years. Specifically, she had been accused of 1) using a key government official to help with her campaign and 2) receiving government-paid help at a political rally from special police provided...
Public Debut. Japanese police believe the Kuala Lumpur attack was masterminded by Fusako Shigenobu, 29, the daughter of an insurance salesman, who is suspected of being the Red Army's leader. The Red Army, numbering about 30 and dedicated to violent revolution, made its public debut in March 1970, when nine members hijacked a Japan Air Lines jet to Pyongyang, North Korea. Two years later, just before the Lod Airport massacre, authorities uncovered the bodies of 14 young men and women on remote Mount Haruna, 70 miles northwest of Tokyo. The 14, who had been tortured and left...
...Party never develops the fine frenzy it needs. The questionable poem was written more than 40 years ago by Joseph Moncure March, another of whose works was the basis for Robert Wise's excellent film about small-time boxing, The Set-Up (1948). It recounts the sad, eventually violent doings at the home of Funnyman Jolly Grimm (James Coco), whose career as a silent-film star has suffered from the coming of sound. After a five-year absence, Jolly is staging the world première of his. new comedy and inviting everyone to his Hollywood mansion. Doug...
Fantasy Father. Some patients hope to punish their absent therapists by performing impulsive, even dangerous acts. Suicide attempts or threats are not uncommon. People under treatment for psychosomatic illnesses like asthma or ulcerative colitis have experienced violent flare-ups of their diseases while their psychiatrists were away. Swartz recalls that one debt-ridden patient suddenly took out a loan for a new Mercedes...