Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work of the secret police. Why did Milosevic dump a man who may finger him for war crimes? Internal reasons: Milosevic's wife, the retrograde communist MIRA MARKOVIC, and his fascist Vice Premier, VOJISLAV SESELJ, had it in for Stanisic. Yet with Serbs increasingly unhappy with Milosevic, the Butcher of the Balkans may rue the day he let his hatchet...
Normally, he pokes fun at all types of people without restraint: "Why do homosexuals always have to have a parade? Put a few homosexuals together and you have a parade. And then they start taking over other people's parades. Like the Jewish Butcher Parade--they'll just jump right in." Jokes about Irish, blacks and Hispanics flow without the slightest of inhibitions. But then, he'll stop every so often to let us know that "Racists are the scum of the earth" and that making fun of others is morally wrong. But why even bother? Instead of finding...
...surprisingly, dressing the part of a psychopathic murderer is as popular as ever. The season's preferred killer is the Woodsboro High butcher made famous by Wes Craven Scream movies, according to the distributing manager of Halloween Adventures in the Cambridgeside Galleria...
...Instead, he told the story of a young, black messenger at his old law firm in Richmond. The youth came to him terrified that he would be arrested for the death of his girlfriend, whom he'd helped get an illegal abortion at the hands of a "back-alley butcher." Powell was moved by the youth's dilemma--and by the injustice and risk that a more affluent couple could avoid by going to a state where abortions were legal. Though the consummate judge, Powell dealt with people as they were, not just as clients or employees or adversaries...
Last year a power struggle in the leadership in Anlong Veng led to the arrest and show trial of Pol Pot, but he was replaced by Ta Mok, another hard-liner impervious to change. Mok, a one-legged man known widely as "the Butcher," resisted the March 24 mutiny, and by last week he had clawed back some territory in Anlong Veng. But with the Khmer Rouge's having lost so many civilians, observers say, it is just a matter of time before its final rump--estimated at 500 to 1,000 soldiers--is dissolved. "Ta Mok has painted himself...