Marxist terrorists demanded a cut of the profits, cocaine traffickers abused the young women, and prostitutes who came from far and wide broke up families.
What portion of us can be given up?" If the government had relented and agreed to withdraw some troops from Chechnya, as the terrorists demanded, Mr. Vasilyev said, "we might not have lost two from the children's cast".
It was in that town that terrorists demanding Russia withdraw from Chechnya, and a botched rescue attempt, killed over 330 people, most of them children.
But it may succeed, as it succeeded in Canada 50 years later against the terrorists demanding independence for Quebec, once a non-violent party took up that cause.
Israel refused to accede to the terrorists' demands to release Palestinian prisoners, and the nine remaining hostages and their captors were eventually transported by helicopters to a military airfield, where officials said they were to be flown to Cairo.
The incoming prime minister, Iyad Allawi, promised ruthless measures to restore order.See articleA 33-year-old South Korean hostage was beheaded by terrorists demanding the withdrawal of South Korean troops from Iraq.
Even the al-Qaida operative who voiced over Pearl's murder was savvy to our predicament; warning viewers that if their governments didn't meet the terrorists' demands – in this instance for the release of Guantánamo prisoners – such scenes would be repeated "again and again".
But their decisions, unlike President Arroyo's, were not driven by terrorist demands.
Rather than giving in to terrorist demands, he offered to close down Schloss Schonau, a processing point for Jewish emigrants.
He talked about the need to be tough in the face of terrorist demands, about France's support for the president who was recently elected in Ivory Coast and about Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which he said were stalemated.
