Word: beaten
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...Ukraine, 36 human rights activists have been convicted since 1976 on charges ranging from hooliganism to sexual offenses. In Kiev, both Jewish and Ukrainian activists have been severely beaten by KGB agents. In one celebrated case last year, witnesses say they saw two men force a popular Ukrainian nationalist composer, Volodymyr Ivasiuk, 31, into a KGB car. Three weeks later his body was found hanging from a tree; his eyes had been gouged out. Such acts of brutality-still rare but apparently on the increase-are strictly illegal. The KGB, however, remains capable of acting as a law unto itself...
...When the police finallyarrive, you probably know nothing of it, because you are raped, kidnapped, dead or beaten badly. Sounds frightening, doesn't it?" It certainly does, but Carpenter has the solution--guns. Because "in many cases the man of the house must be away from home due to work etc," women need firearms. Big firearms, because smaller ones "lack the stopping power to bring down an advancing felon." Carpenter admits his advice may be legally questionable. "Some states have ridiculous laws, such as one can shoot in self-defense only if the intruder states he intends physicals harm...
Reagan will continue to do some pre-convention campaigning, partly to prevent the Democrats from getting all the publicity, partly to cement party unity; he is addressing a series of dinners aimed at raising money to pay off the campaign debts of his beaten rivals. But his main problem is choosing a vice-presidential running mate. The two obvious candidates, Bush and Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, both have drawbacks: Bush is considered a weak campaigner by some Reaganites, and Baker is vigorously opposed by fervent conservatives displeased by his votes to provide federal financing for poor women...
...toward two societies, one black, one white-separate and unequal" has faded, too, from public consciousness. But as firemen in riot-ravaged Miami quenched the last embers of blazes that had reduced scores of business buildings to charred shells, as street crews hosed off the blood of 14 people beaten or shot to death, and 3,800 National Guardsmen withdrew from patrolling a 40-block by 60-block area of the shaken city, the nation had been jolted anew into a realization that black outrage at "a double standard of justice" still remains near flash point in many U.S. cities...
Trying to report the riot, United Press International Reporter Mike Fowler was seized by blacks, beaten and robbed of his wallet. Jeffrey Kulp, ,22, a white passenger in a car being attacked by a mob, was shot in the back and left paralyzed from the waist down. As the car fled, it struck Shanreka Perry, 11, a black girl. Her leg had to be amputated...