Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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APRIL 1967: A terrorist in the Dominican Republic celebrated the anniversary of the U.S. intervention by hurling a grenade at an American schoolteacher and killing...
...Valley near Danang has turned up almost no enemy forces in an area that has long been a center of Communist activity. But in cities and hamlets throughout the country, a war of terror is rapidly heating up. The number of murders, kidnapings and other terrorist incidents has risen from 654 in January to 1,094 last month. The incidents last week ranged from the shooting of a 47-year-old woman in Saigon by two thugs on a motor bike to a rocket attack on a military prison in Hué that killed 14 soldiers and wounded another...
...Rogers plan is not an initiative for peace," maintained Begin. "It is an initiative for Israel's destruction." The Polish-born Begin, who was commander of the Jewish terrorist group Irgun Zvai Leumi in pre-independence days, appeared to be digging in his heels for both principle and politics. Elected to the first Knesset after independence, he has been Labor's principal opposition ever since, occasionally with effective results. Shortly before the 1967 war, Begin forced Premier Levi Eshkol to give up his added post of Defense Minister to the more aggressive and knowledgeable Moshe Dayan...
...power" and clung stubbornly to the remnants of the Portuguese Empire. For eight years, he conducted a series of wars against black nationalist guerrillas in his African colonies of Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea. He never visited the colonies, however, promising to go to Angola "only when the last terrorist has been dominated or expelled...
...finally gets his existential shit together when he meets Leonard II (Seymour Cassel), a fiery wild-eyed money burning Jerry Rubin style terrorist and gets into a back-up bomber action at a conspiracy trial. Williams aims at more than "realism" by portraying this final sequence as unsenstional, without crowds or reporters. The cerie setting he comes an apotheosis of the existential situation: the problem of the individual's depth-perception, the limits of the revolutionary's knowledge into his support and his justification. The People are no where to be seen, and an oppressive silence dominates...