Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Traumatic Terror...
Most important, the new atomic generation might have grown up confident that man was the master rather than the victim of nuclear discoveries, seeing the power of the atom more as opportunity than threat-and making that opportunity flower. Quite probably Japan, for instance, freed of its traumatic terror of atomic energy, would have been among the pioneers in peaceful nuclear research. Instead, an entire generation of children, all around the globe, has reached adulthood with a constant sense of lurking terror that has all too often surfaced in nightmares, or more maturely, in peace demonstrations...
...legacy of suppression that began with the Soviet bombardment of Kronstadt led directly to the Stalinist terror and to the faceless, cynical technocracy that the Soviet Union is today. That alone, in retrospect, would make the attack on the fortress absurd. But the burning irony of Kronstadt is that, before the siege began, at a time when it might have been stopped or called off, the real perpetrators were nowhere to be found...
Those charges, brought by female prisoners in Rio de Janeiro, come from "Terror in Brazil," a 15,000-word dossier compiled by the American Committee for Information on Brazil. The document was endorsed by 34 concerned citizens, including Black Leader Ralph Abernathy and John Bennett, president of Union Theological Seminary. According to the dossier, Brazil's military regime has resorted to a whole catalogue of horrors in its effort to root out dissidents...
...committee is not alone in its denunciation. In the past two years, churchmen, students and international organizations have brought to light sordid stories of terror and torture. Repressive measures have increased dramatically since December 1968, when the military men who have run Latin America's largest and most populous (90,840,000) nation for six years sent the Congress temporarily packing and curbed most political activities. Denied outlets for protest, some dissidents turned to terrorist acts ranging from bombing and bank robbery to kidnaping and murder. With estimates of the number of terrorists running as high...