Word: redness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...besides Villareale and his Island, a pair of high school boys who arrived in a beat-up Chevy with "Sit On It Iran" scrawled on the side in red paint, and a drunk Cherokee Indian. There were also five chartered buses...
...rest of the world suffered a long siege: 17 died in the Palestinian terrorists' attack at the Olympic Village in Munich in 1972. Twenty-five died when terrorists opened fire in the Tel Aviv airport the same year. The Baader-Meinhof gang in Germany and the Red Brigades in Italy turned life for European executives into a routine of paranoid precautions. Former Premier Aldo Moro was kidnaped and executed. With grotesque ingenuity, Italian terrorists practiced "kneecapping"-blowing holes in their victims' knees. Hijackers in the '70s forced every major airport in the world to search passengers...
...most brutal blow from the Soviet Union's steel fist since the Red Army's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. In a lightning series of events last week, Afghanistan's President Hafizullah Amin was overthrown, and subsequently executed, in a ruthless coup mounted by the Soviet Union and carried out with the firepower of Soviet combat troops. In Amin's place, Moscow installed Babrak Karmal, a former Deputy Prime Minister long considered to be a Soviet protégé, but not before Russian troops were forced to fight a sporadic series of gun battles...
Paul P. Michalski '83, one of Wolsky's roommates, said yesterday that while Wolsky was at Harvard he studied mathematics. Wolsky was also a Red Sox fan, and used to play golf almost every day in the summer...
Lastly, but not least, in Mr. Tooby's defense of sociobiology, he resorts to the time-honored tradition of red-baiting. If the technical inaccuracies in the body of his letter fail to raise questions about the nature of the theory he defends, then surely his slurs about radical politics should cause one to consider the substance of his reply. He states that inasmuch as there is not truth in our accusations, one must examine our ideology, which, according to him, places "class interest--or more simply, greed--as an explanation for why people behave as they...