Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...hitting out with the strongest language he has used as President, punching hard on his favorite theme of law-and-order. He declared war on what he called the "band of violent thugs" in America-and on the permissiveness that he believes has helped to create a climate of terror...
...terror has been relatively limited; as far as is known, no group has sought to plunge a city into chaos with simultaneous attacks, for example, on its power stations, water supply and main roads. But the degree of terror has increased notably with the cop-killing campaign in the U.S. and the murder of hostages in Canada, Argentina, Uruguay and Guatemala. Thus the urban guerrillas have revived the system of diplomatic ransom that flourished from the Dark Ages until the Renaissance, when kings and princes routinely used ambassadors as hostages. As Brandeis Sociologist Richard Sennett puts it: "The terrorism...
...there are signs that they are stirring under the influence of the new terror. In Paris, police credit a Maoist group called the Proletarian Left with 82 terrorist acts in the first five months of 1970. This summer, its "No Vacations for the Rich" program featured sabotage attacks on Riviera resorts. Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre belongs to the 2,000-member group and edits its newspaper, but his efforts have gone unnoticed; the police have confiscated every issue since Sartre took up his pencil...
...reason the new terror often appears to be epidemic is that the tactics are so similar. The guerrillas all study the same texts?by Mao or Che or Carlos Marighella (see box, page 20). Instant communications, moreover, guarantee a sort of global cross-pollination of radicalism. Harvard Professor of Government Seymour Martin Lipset tells of the time he "asked a revolutionary in South America whether he kept in touch with developments in the U.S. He replied, 'We watch television. We saw everything at Berkeley...
...should governments deal with the urban guerrilla threat? Brazil's tough response has put all but a few fanatics out of the terror business, and it is not hard to see why. "When we invade a terrorist cell," explained one Brazilian official last week, "we use twice the force necessary. We make a demonstration so overwhelming that the people know there is absolutely no way out." Off-duty police and troops have also formed unofficial "death squads" to search out and eliminate known terrorists...