Word: violent
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...F.A.L.N. is the latest standard-bearer of violent Puerto Rican nationalist tradition that goes back to 1868, when machete-carrying rebels briefly proclaimed a republic in the Spanish colonial town of Lares. In the 1940s and '50s, followers of Pedro Albizu Campos not only bombed buildings and murdered officials on the island but also brought terrorism to the U.S.: gunmen tried to assassinate President Harry Truman in 1950, and in 1954 shot up the House of Representatives.* The F.A.L.N. first appeared in August 1974, when it claimed responsibility for a bombing in Manhattan's Lincoln Center. The group...
...nuclear ecology movement has also coalesced into an active political force. The Clamshell Alliance, in particular, in its last occupation at Seabrook, N.H. demonstrated to the entire world community a powerful display of non-violent action...
...done surprisingly well so far at narrowing the initial differences between Israelis and Arabs so that they are seriously considering sitting down together at Geneva. The result of the Administration's decision to move from push to shove in the Middle East could easily have been different: a violent shouting match with the parties involved that would dash the prospects for negotiations and saddle the Administration with a highly visible foreign policy failure that it can ill afford...
...future change: the resignation last week of Michiel C. Botha as Minister of Bantu Administration. An unbending Afrikaner, Botha was responsible for enforcing the education, housing and labor laws that cover the country's blacks. He was a main target of black wrath during last year's violent riots and in the current strike of teachers and students that has paralyzed the school system in Soweto...
...their hair in crew cuts, parade about in flashy double-breasted suits, and affect the swaggering gait and tough-guy scowl of characters out of Guys and Dolls. They are the gangster minority in a society that enjoys the lowest crime rate of any industrialized nation in the world (violent crime actually decreased by one-third in Japan over the past 15 years). But unlike mobsters of the West, Japan's yakuza (good-for-nothings) are part of a chivalric tradition that dates back to the 17th century, when unemployed samurai turned to Robin Hood-style banditry. Even today...