Word: terrorizer
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Economy Minister Antonio Erman Gonzalez called it "a week of economic terror." That was no exaggeration, even in a country where economic scare stories are all too common. Among the latest horrors: a sudden year-end collapse of the value of the austral, which plunged from 1,200 to the U.S. dollar to 2,000 before markets closed for the New Year, and price rises of as much as 100% as rumors circulated that the value of Argentina's national currency might be halved again. Shell-shocked citizens waited for Erman, the third Economy Minister since President Carlos Saul Menem...
...offered its support. Said the British Foreign Office: "Although one may regret a secret trial, at the time it was not really surprising." Gorbachev congratulated Iliescu on taking charge "at a difficult moment when Rumanian patriots resolutely came out to save the nation from forces of despotism and terror." Beijing, a Ceausescu supporter to the end, fretted privately but said only that "we respect the choice made by the Rumanian people...
...much of the Industrial Revolution and the democratic revolution, Russia then missed whatever chance World War I and the collapse of the monarchy gave it to become a modern country in this century. In assembling the Soviet state, the Bolsheviks took two components of their own revolutionary modus operandi -- terror and conspiracy -- grafted them onto the ideology of universal state ownership, then retained five vestiges of the czarist old regime: despotism, bureaucracy, the secret police, a huge army and a multinational empire subjugated by Russians...
...rushed to the state television studio to put out the message "We won. The dictator has fallen." Ceausescu's son Nicu, party chief in the Transylvanian city of Sibiu (pop. 173,000), was captured and paraded before the cameras. His face was bruised, and his eyes flicked in terror from side to side, as if seeking a way to escape...
...Lenin to have earned a university degree. He is experienced in weighing evidence and reassessing what Marxists call -- but often do not respect -- "objective reality." His rise in the party began long after Stalin's death, so he is less afflicted than his elders by xenophobia and acceptance of terror as a civic norm. His abilities were recognized by KGB chief Yuri Andropov, who offered him counsel and support. Andropov had been a Central Committee Secretary and, as head of intelligence, had access to a picture of domestic and international affairs undistorted by propaganda. He was able to brief Gorbachev...