Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are also ominous signs that the army is becoming more polarized, with many regular officers moving to the right. After conservative General António Pires Veloso was recently removed as commander of the Northern Military Region, Oporto, Portugal's second largest city, was racked by violent demonstrations and bombings. In scenes reminiscent of the post-revolutionary turmoil, three Communist headquarters were destroyed...
Other European countries are afflicted by violent radicals, notably Italy. But somehow national stereotyping makes a certain amount of disorder seem less remarkable in Italy than in Germany. The dictum is that Germans, with their Ordnungsliebe, could not make a revolution because they refuse to walk on the grass. Today, West German police estimate that there are no more than 50 committed terrorists-abetted by perhaps 2,000 active sympathizers-in a population of more than 61 million. Despite the massive, nationwide man hunt for the killers of kidnaped Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer, the terrorists have not yet given...
...successful in gaining its citizens' support that extremists of either left or right have found little social unrest to exploit. Says Irving Fetscher, a political scientist at the University of Frankfurt: "Those students who did try to win over the workers generally failed, and then they turned violent. Either you reshape your view of reality, or you try to punish reality for not conforming to your theories...
...case in its pursuit of materialism; it has simply pursued the goal of affluence for a majority of its populace more successfully than its near neighbors. Moreover, acknowledging the zeal (however misplaced) of idealists is one thing; quite another is accepting, at face value, the radical claims of a violent adventurist movement with no moral vision beyond Götterdämmerung. West Germans somehow ought to be assured that the world will not think badly of them for interfering with the work of those who wish to destroy them. - Lance Morrow
...effects of the drug are so unpredictable that users call it "heaven and hell." Irrational or violent action is typical of chronic users, but even dabblers are not immune to sudden rages. A small dosage of PCP can produce a high that resembles drunkenness and can lead to anything from euphoria and a sense of bouncing to depression and hallucinations. Larger doses can bring convulsions, psychosis, uncontrollable rage, coma and death. "It's a real terror of a drug," says NIDA Director Robert DuPont. "Everything people used to say about marijuana is true about angel dust...