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...stickup in the main square of Tiflis. Among those arrested as a result of this raid was Litvinov, future Commissar for Foreign Affairs, who was trying to dispose of the loot in Paris. Koba, although on the police "wanted" list, managed to keep in the background. He was a terrorist, but a terrorist who operated through committees. This was caution; none ever questioned his personal courage...
...game, its purple hills and russet downs. Thirty thousand whites grow much of Britain's coffee in its exclusive White Highlands, rule 5,500,000 blacks and 100,000 Indians with a strong hand, and now live with guns at their sides in fear of the terrorist Mau Mau secret society...
...Soviet security organs," said the voice, "uncovered a terrorist group of physicians who, by prescribing harmful treatment, sought to cut short the lives of Soviet leaders." Nine doctors, the cream of the Soviet medical profession, had "confessed" to murdering two Politburo members and to trying to murder top officers of the Soviet army and navy...
French authorities on the scene blamed extremists for the crime, and used the occasion to lock up a dozen top nationalist and labor leaders. The Tunisians blamed the assassination on what they said was a secret terrorist organization of resident Frenchmen called "the Red Hand...
...deaf-mute, had suddenly started prophesying that "God would arrive in Kirawara at one o'clock." Attracted by the commotion, a British-led patrol of Kenya's African police came crashing through the jungle, intent on arresting the prophet as a mouthpiece of the Mau Mau, the terrorist secret society that threatens to turn Kenya Crown Colony into a colonial golgotha. "God will destroy all government chiefs," intoned the prophet defiantly. "Airplanes will fall to earth, and police bullets turn to water." Thus encouraged, the prophet's trusting admirers charged the cops, brandishing long knives...