Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spiritual and terrorist leader of Palestine's Arabs, the Mufti two years ago escaped to Syria, where French authorities, never very cooperative with the British in that part of the world, allowed him to continue to direct the Palestine terrorist campaign. Fortnight ago. however, French authorities arrested several of his followers, tightened the guard around his residence, appeared willing finally to cooperate with Britain in putting down any nascent Arab rebellion. This was inconvenient to the Mufti. He soon disappeared. He was reported to have escaped to Bagdad, and rumor had it that he might go from Iraq...
...escaped to the U. S. in 1924, They That Take the Sword is a simply-told, convincing, first-person marathon (717 pages). It traces the career of an idealistic, dynamic, personable young Siberian peasant who ran away at 16 to become a "Russian Lincoln." He became leader of a terrorist group, was exiled to Siberia, rose to a captaincy during the War, commanded both Red and White troops in the civil war, narrowly escaped "liquidation" when he grew disgusted with both sides...
...illegal Irish Republican Army, determined to harass Great Britain into giving the six provinces of Northern Ireland to Eire, intensified its underground terrorist activities last week...
...terrorist campaign scored its first victory when the Northern Ireland Government reluctantly announced that the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Kent to Belfast had been indefinitely postponed...
...usually softened the rebels' ardor by giving them big jobs in the party and then hamstringing them with trusted conservative advisers. Elected last year to the Congress presidency-with Saint Gandhi's blessing-was fiery young Subhas Chander Bose, a Bengal leader with a long record of terrorist activities. Considered at first a weakling in politics, President Bose soon began to kick at the Gandhi traces. He forced Millionaire Jamnalal Bajaj, good friend of Gandhi, to resign as Congress treasurer for "reasons of health." He curried to the masses by charging that Indian Congress officials had jailed trade...