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...Shadow is based more than a little on Batman-a rich playboy with a darker side that he uses to fight crime. But Baldwin's Cranston has a bit more of an edge than Keaton's Batman. When we first meet him, he's known as "The Butcher," who has amassed a fortune in the Far East and is living a life of depravity in Tibet. Cranston is redeemed when a "holy man" forcibly takes the Westerner under his wing to teach him "how to cloud men's minds...
...killed in three years of fighting have been civilians. An additional 4 million have become refugees, most of them driven from their homes in pogroms of "ethnic cleansing." Survivors tell of concentration camps, brutal guards, starvation rations, killing grounds, mass graves. They remember a sadist called the Butcher, the killer gang known as the Jokers. They have witnessed summary executions, decapitations, human beings being thrown on bonfires. Some still hear the moans of raped women, the shrieks of terrified children, the howls of men under torture...
Enes Hadzic, a 36-year-old Muslim truck driver, was held for two months at the Omarska detention camp in the summer of 1992. He says Tadic, who came from his home village of Kozarac, six miles east of Prijedor, was a guard nicknamed the Butcher for the beatings and torture sessions he conducted. "One night six men were called out and killed within an hour," says Hadzic, held in a room nearby. "I could hear the voices saying, 'Please, Dule, don't kill me.' " One of Tadic's victims was Jasmin Hrnic, also from Kozarac. "I personally saw Dule...
...would wish to be known for more, Blackmun will largely be remembered for writing the 1973 majority opinion in Roe v. Wade, establishing a woman's right to choose an abortion. He probably set a record for judicial hate mail, 60,000 pieces, calling him everything from the Butcher of Dachau to Pontius Pilate. At a recent speech, he read from one: " 'You are the lowest scum on earth' -- signed by 'an American Patriot...
...relative of an Iranian dissident who was murdered in France, I thank TIME for breaking the silence on how Iran hunts down its opponents abroad ((TERRORISM, March 21)). Iran's ruling mullahs butcher Iranian dissidents abroad to demonstrate the mullahs' capacity to eliminate their critics with impunity no matter where those critics live. No doubt the mullahs are encouraged by the decision of several Western governments to appease Iran. Handing suspects in the murder of dissidents back to Iran may win a few short- term economic and political advantages, but it will not end Iranian terrorism...