Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Colonel William Higgins, 44, who was kidnaped last year while serving as head of an observer team attached to the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon. His captors claimed they killed him in retaliation for Israel's seizure of Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid, a presumed leader of Shi'ite Hizballah terrorists, during a raid into southern Lebanon. U.S. officials now believe, however, that Higgins had been dead for some time, then used for his kidnapers' macabre display. No matter which terrible theory turns out to be true, the image of Higgins' body was a brutal reminder that, ten years after...
Since the 1970s, American foreign policy has been sharply constrained by its inability to react adequately to the terrorist actions used by radical Arab organizations--and nations--as a tool of diplomatic leverage. During the dark days of the Carter Administration, airplane hijackings and hostage-takings effectively paralyzed a president too pacifistic to protect his own citizens...
Reality: To believe that we would all have lived happily ever after is pure fantasy. To survive, a terrorist must continually produce publicity, must keep other nations hostage to surprise and misfortune...
Reality: Even if other nations were proud of Israels venture, public and international opinion would have kept them from applauding such a risky venture into Lebanon and terrorist diplomacy...
Satiric cartoons that have appeared in the press--like the one showing a terrorist keeled over laughing hysterically at Bush's words--illustrate the country's lack of confidence in the president...