Date:  Wed, 11 Oct 1995 14:27:42 -0400

From:  "M. Lynne Murphy" <104LYN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MUSE.ARTS.WITS.AC.ZA>

Subject: Re: Terrorism vs. sabotage



terrorism is what is done by people you (or at least the govt) don't

like.



if we get back to the roots of "terrorism"--it would seem that the

object of terrorism is to terrify. it's not done to keep the train

from getting somewhere, but to make a statement, like "we're the

anarchists, so don't mess with us".



whereas sabotage, it seems to me, would have as its aim the stopping

of the train or the downfall of amtrak or some such thing.



lynne, who hasn't heard anything about amtrak derailings



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