Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crouton. In Philippe ville, Algeria, when a terrorist threw a bomb into a restaurant where 40 French soldiers were eating, it landed in one soldier's soup, where its fuse was extinguished...
...quarter of Nicosia, appealing in person to startled Turk Cypriot shopkeepers and stallholders for calm. And to show the Greeks how ready he was to negotiate, Foot released the text of a secret offer that he had written last April to Colonel George Grivas, leader of the Greek Cypriot terrorist organization EOKA: "I am prepared to go any place at any time you nominate to meet you. I would come alone and unarmed and would give you my word that for that day you would be in no danger of arrest...
Moslem Joan. Abbane, 38, was typical of the single-minded fanatics who emerge from every revolutionary situation. Asked how he managed to stand the strain of terrorist activity, he snapped: "It's easy. I get up angry in the morning and I go to bed angry at night." Abbane was a Kabyle, a member of a rugged mountain race that looks down on the other Berber tribes and especially on the Arab Algerians of the cities. The Kabyles' history is old and militant: under King Jugurtha, they held off the might of ancient Rome for five bloody years...
...Great Honor." It all began last fall when Bigeard's men captured an Algerian terrorist named Zerrouk, and persuaded him to change sides. Still outwardly a rebel, Zerrouk slipped back into the casbah as Bigeard's chief informer. Thanks to him, one terrorist leader after another fell into French hands, until Zerrouk found himself Terrorist No. 2, outranked only by the wily and elusive Yacef Saadi. Communicating only through a network of F.L.N. intermediaries and "letterboxes," Zerrouk (in messages dictated by Bigeard) described his own feats so glowingly that Saadi ordered him to be more cautious...
...that Saadi get in touch with F.L.N. leaders in nearby Kabylia. Saadi innocently followed the suggestion, only to learn later that as soon as the Kabylia recruits arrived in Algiers, the French promptly seized them. By last Sept. 24, all that was left of Saadi's once formidable terrorist empire was Saadi himself. That day (TIME, Oct. 7) the French ringed his casbah hideout and captured him and his mistress...