Word: terrorizing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...time when elements of the South African security forces have brought a reign of terror on South Africa's black population and the South African government seems unwilling or unable to rein these forces in," the statement reads, "we call on Harvard University to completely divest its portfolio of companies doing business in South Africa...
...good, active group. He was very popular, so a blow aimed at him would hurt the party and the people. That's probably why he was marked for sacrifice: his death provided a pretext for shaking up the country, alarming the people so that they would accept the terror and let Stalin get rid of the undesirables and "enemies of the people...
...placing our missile units in Cuba. Only a narrow circle of people knew about the plan. We concluded that we could send 42 missiles, each with a warhead of one megaton. We picked targets in the U.S. to inflict the maximum damage. We saw that our weapons could inspire terror. The two nuclear weapons the U.S. used against Japan at the end of the war were toys by comparison...
...charging her. Officials said privately they would not do so until they had an ironclad case. The national antiapartheid coalition did not hesitate, though. In February 1989, leaders of the United Democratic Front and the Congress of South African Trade Unions blamed Mandela for her gang's "reign of terror" and called on activists to shun...
...longevity of the Saudi regime. Along with a handful of other, smaller oil-rich sheikdoms, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are rightly labeled the only family-owned businesses with seats in the United Nations. They are backward and absolutist, and are the primary financial backers of the Palestinian terror organizations that have spilled so much innocent blood in the past decades...