Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Subsequent events followed a now familiar script. In Bilbao, another Basque city, the West German consul received a postcard from Beihl identifying the kidnapers as members of the E.T.A.-for Euskadi at Askatu-sana ("Basque Land and Liberty"). A minuscule but tautly organized terrorist group, E.T.A. has been skirmishing with General Francisco Franco's regime for years. Beihl's future, it was made clear, would depend on the fate of 16 E.T.A. guerrillas who went on trial last week in Burgos for the 1968 murder of a San Sebastián police chief and other terrorist activities...
With rare exceptions, J. Edgar Hoover maintains tight silence about the FBI's investigations in process. Last week he broke that silence before a Senate appropriations subcommittee to tell of a terrorist "conspiracy" involving radical Catholic priests and nuns...
Canadian authorities took a giant step forward this weekend in cracking down on the underground terrorist group whose actions the government cited more than three weeks ago in placing the country under military rule...
Beirut, maintains that there are two ways to view the terrorist. "The sympathetic approach holds that the individual is overcome by despair that he will ever accomplish anything by conventional means, and one implication is the severance of the last ethical link with established values in society." The hostile approach, he says, is to "see a common denominator in childhood experience, psychic debility or even derangement...
...should governments deal with the urban guerrilla threat? Brazil's tough response has put all but a few fanatics out of the terror business, and it is not hard to see why. "When we invade a terrorist cell," explained one Brazilian official last week, "we use twice the force necessary. We make a demonstration so overwhelming that the people know there is absolutely no way out." Off-duty police and troops have also formed unofficial "death squads" to search out and eliminate known terrorists...