Word: terroristic
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...assault-style rifle and took part in an all-night shoot-out against pro-gambling forces. George, editor of two newspapers, the Akwesasne Notes and Indian Times, later wrote a gripping story about the battle, warning, "Unless we have permanent peace here, we're going to resort to terrorist methods...
Would U.S. domestic air travelers put up with such delays and intrusions for the increased assurance that no terrorist bomb is aboard their flight? They may have to, if the Bush Administration adopts the recommendations of the President's Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism, which last week proposed some 60 strong steps for avoiding another tragedy like the midair destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. That disaster, said the commission's tough 182-page report, "may well have been preventable." The report blamed Pan Am's "seriously flawed" security system for loading an apparently...
Larry (Tim Robbins) is not entirely unfamiliar either. You have met him most memorably in Dog Day Afternoon. He is the not-quite-bright, entirely too volatile urban terrorist of every passerby's nightmare. For he is the kind of weirdo who one day decides to air his grievances by invading public space, grabbing a few hostages and seeing if the resulting police and media attention will ease the throbbing in his temples. Larry rides his motorcycle through the plate-glass window of Turgeon Auto, in grungy Queens, N.Y., where Joey works. He is looking for whoever is having...
Altruism -- his life for the many? No way. Loyalty to his boss, who is the real culprit? Quit kidding. Joey sees talking the would-be terrorist out of mass murder as the maximum test of his salesmanship. In his time he has cut the sticker price and upped the trade-in allowance on everything but death. He cannot resist the opportunity to do this ultimate deal. Besides, Larry is his kind of customer, infinitely suggestible, infinitely distractible...
Carlos Pizarro Leon-Gomez, a former chief of the M-19 terrorist group, abandoned the revolution two months ago to run for President in the May 27 elections. Last Thursday his campaign was cut short. While flying from Bogota to Barranquilla, Pizarro was gunned down by an assailant wielding a 9-mm Ingram automatic pistol...