Word: terrorists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...plot revolves around a terrorist scheme by the Palestinian Black September group (Munich Olympics, 1972) to murder a stadium full of football fans at the Super Bowl, 1978, by simultaneously shooting 80,000 steel darts into the bleachers from the underbelly of the Goodyear blimp. The political motives of the principals involved, although necessarily handled mostly as a premise for suspense, are carefully presented so no-one can take credit as a sympathetic protagonist. Bruce Dern, as an ex-POW who was court-marshalled for making a film commending the North Vietnamese cause during his capture and has gotten nothing...
...someone had been seated just one row forward, he might have lived instead of died. If there had been no terrorist bombing at Las Palmas. If the KLM plane had not refueled, would its lighter weight have provided a lifesaving extra lift? If KLM had waited just 30 seconds more to take off. If Pan Am had moved a bit faster to its exit?or slower...
...fight against terrorism is far from over. Since the coup, 1,700 leftist guerrillas and 124 soldiers and police have died in what the military calls "the dirty war." The government has virtu ally wiped out one major terrorist group, the leftist Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (E.R.P.). The other large guerrilla network is the Montoneros, who are also leftists with Peronist sympathies; most of their top leaders have been killed or captured, but they can still launch spectacular bombings, kidnapings and murders. One Shootout last week took place at Buenos Aires' evening rush hour, near the Supreme...
...controls of the blimp. He has rigged it with 100,000 steel darts, which, if detonated at just the right moment, can wipe out everybody in the stadium, down to the last pompon girl. With him is Marthe Keller, his mistress and representative of Black September, the Arab terrorist organization that is financing his attempt to turn homicidal fantasy into reality. Coming on fast is Robert Shaw, Israeli counterterrorist, who must shinny down a rope from a helicopter, attach a skyhook to the blimp and tow it away from the stadium before Dern sets off his destruction...
Dean Gerbner suggested that such excesses might be avoided if the media delayed their coverage of terrorist attacks. "Nothing would be lost if the public didn't get the information for 30 minutes, an hour or even a couple of days...