Word: terrorist
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...underemployment, the state has never fully recovered economically from the influx of some 4,000,000 predominantly Hindu refugees, who fled to West Bengal when East Bengal chose to become part of Moslem Pakistan in 1947. Ever since, the area has been a fertile ground for political turmoil among terrorist groups, criminals masquerading under political banners, and countless university graduates with no prospect of jobs. But officials, faced with the urgency of caring for so many additional millions, have necessarily shifted other problems into the background. Says Siddhartha Shankar Ray, Mrs. Gandhi's Minister of West Bengal affairs...
...Amchitka blast. A bitter parliamentary debate caused the State Department and White House to assure the Canadians that their objections had been considered. Demonstrators closed major bridges connecting Canada and Michigan for several hours. U.S. consulates were stoned. Five American-owned companies closed down operations following threats of terrorist bombings of U.S. firms...
...Soviets-and most other U.N. delegations, for that matter-the cause célèbre of the week was not China, but a cowardly sniper attack on a roomful of Russian children, apparently perpetrated by an adherent of the tinhorn terrorist Jewish Defense League. One evening at midweek, four rifle bullets crashed through an eleventh-floor bedroom window in the massive East Side Manhattan building that houses the large Soviet mission to the U.N. The shots were not heard by the 700 guests attending a lively reception on the lower floors, but they narrowly missed four embassy children...
Habash is shrewdly sensitive to popular opinion. Thus, because the P.F.L.P. has been widely censured for blowing up commercial jets, Habash indicated that hijackings will cease. "We are not a terrorist party," he said. "We are revolutionaries. We will not practice terror but revolutionary violence, taking as targets things that the common man will understand." Last week, as if to underscore his point, a section of the 1,068-mile Tapline, which carries Saudi Arabian oil to the Mediterranean, was mysteriously blown...
Measure of Distrust. The violence quickly escalated. The following night, the popular Tu Do nightclub was blown up with a 15-lb. plastique charge, killing 15 and wounding 57. Though the attack appeared to be the work of Viet Cong terrorists, it was a measure of the distrust in which Thieu is now held that some observers thought that the President might even have engineered that. Their reasoning: any terrorist attack would be blamed on the Viet Cong, thereby strengthening Thieu's anti-Communist stand and silencing such antiwar critics as McGovern...