Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political symbolism and the political framework within which its members saw their mission. DeFreeze took the name Cinque, the name of an African slave who led a slave ship revolt in 1839. The SLA's food plan resembles the tactics of the Argentine Revolutionary Army of the People, a terrorist group which has successfully demanded food, clothing, and medical equipment in ransom for kidnaped corporation executives. The set of SLA demands to Randolph Hearst involved no payments to the SLA. The Army's platform declares the SLA's opposition to "all forms of racism, sexism, age-ism, captalism, fascism, individualism...
...second argument is that the terrorists, even if not supported by the great mass of people, understand history and the political conditions necessary for social progress with a true consciousness the majority has not yet attained. This historical argument is rarely made seriously unless a terrorist group has mass support. Its logical extension is Rosa Luxembourg's definition of revolution--a string of failures that ends with a final success. In other words, if terror works--if it forces a ruling class to meet the demands of terrorists--that success validates and justifies the terror. If the terror fails...
Protestants Suspected. The terrorist Provisional wing of the outlawed Irish Republican Army denied responsibility for the atrocity. So did the extremist Protestant Ulster Defense Association, although a U.D.A. spokesman said, "I am very happy about the bombings." Most of the skimpy evidence suggested that the bombs had been planted by Protestant firebrands. The cars containing the explosives had apparently disappeared from Protestant neighborhoods of Belfast. More significantly, Protestant extremists have seemed unusually nervous about recent agreements reached between Ireland, Ulster and Britain, which they fear are the first steps toward union with the Catholic south...
...present the Palestinian raid on Maalot and the Israeli bombing of Lebanon as parallel acts of terrorism without distinguishing between them. The Israeli action was wrong both morally and tactically, but it was directed at preventing future massacres of Israeli civilians, and its stated goal was to strike at terrorist bases and not at civilians. Though this does not justify the air raids, it differentiates them from the Palestinian attack, the clear thrust of which was at civilians--in this case, mostly children...
...Heir Sir Alfred Beit.* The art works, valued at $20 million, were recovered intact two weeks ago in a remote cottage in County Cork, on the Irish coast, where police found both the paintings and Rose Dugdale. She had been sought by police in connection with Irish Republican Army terrorist operations and was thus additionally charged with smuggling firearms and explosives to the I.R.A. in Northern Ireland. At one point during her arraignment in Dublin last week, Rose shouted to spectators: "The British have an army of occupation in a small part of Ireland -but not for long...