Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Knesset. Mrs. Meir was forced to bargain earnestly with Religious Party and Liberal Party leaders in order to form a governing coalition. In February she had to threaten resignation to keep the warring factions of her own party in line. Meanwhile, the right-wing opposition-led by onetime Irgun Terrorist Menachem Begin-banded together in a menacing bloc known as Likud (union...
...more inside and outside refugee camps in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan) has been the most intractable of the Middle East disputes. Syria has given strident sympathy to the "liberation" groups that would dismantle Israel as a Jewish state and establish a binational, secular Palestine, and Syria has seldom condemned terrorist actions. Asks Assad: "How could we persuade the dispossessed people they should be content to keep silence and not disturb the world...
...Quebec in 1970 was a massive show of police and military strength, ordered by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Many government officials were given round-the-clock protection by police or soldiers, and some wealthy families spent sizable sums to hire private guards. Police were empowered to hold suspected terrorists without formal charges for 21 days. Hundreds of Quebeckers - most of them French-speaking separatists, but not terrorists - were arrested in nighttime raids. Canadians endured a state of near-martial law for two months, and polls showed that a large majority approved Trudeau's tough stand, at least...
Canada's large-scale crackdown cannot, of course, serve as any kind of model for the U.S., nor would most Americans support the abrogation of the traditional American concepts of civil rights. The U.S. has no terrorist groups of any size or popular support like those of Quebec, Argentina and Uruguay. The only way to cope with U.S. terrorist kidnapers may be simply to deal with each case individually and patiently. "Talk, talk, talk and never give in," says Norval Morris, director of the University of Chicago's Center for Studies in Criminal Justice. "Every contact with kidnapers...
Even so, TIME'S Saigon Bureau Chief Gavin Scott last week found that many of the city's inhabitants remain afraid of terrorist raids and further shellings. Public schools were still closed to avoid the tragedy of an artillery shell's hitting a crowded classroom. Last week workmen were installing bulletproof glass in the foyer of the U.S. embassy (even as American Charge d'Affaires Thomas Enders assured the capital's populace that "the enemy is failing"). The Australian and British embassies have sandbagged their front entrances, and half of the city...