Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mack led her to a storeroom, where he grabbed a hammer and without provocation smashed it into her skull five times. Picking up a steak knife, he stabbed her shoulder and chest near her heart and slit her throat. He dumped Small in her car and left her for dead. Then he took in a movie...
...Arafat's peace initiative continues to be propelled by the intifadeh, the 17-month-old uprising that has left 20 Israelis and at least 361 Palestinians dead. But if another year goes by without any serious prospect of peace talks, Arafat may pronounce his initiative a failure. That could be the start of an even bloodier phase. According to Arafat confidants, P.L.O. activists may then be given the green light to start using bullets instead of stones against the Israeli occupation forces...
...departing Old Guard, dubbed the "dead souls" in a reference to Nikolai Gogol's 19th century novel, read like a Who's Who from the time of Leonid Brezhnev. Included were a former President, a former Prime Minister, five marshals, six generals and a portfolio of onetime Politburo members. What's more, they had "requested" to resign in an extraordinary statement that expressed "unanimous support for the political course of our dear party." As Gorbachev explained to the plenum, "One generation of party members has naturally to replace another...
...workers join the campaign for political reform, the government backs away from a threatened crackdown. -- Gorbachev purges 74 "dead souls" from the Central Committee. -- After a Prime Minister's downfall and a loyal aide's suicide, Japan ponders what's next. -- U.S. policy remains adrift as Washington predicts a rigged election in Panama...
...pack came upon a 28-year-old woman jogging alone past a grove of sycamore trees. According to police, they chased her into a gully, then spent the next half an hour beating her senseless with a rock and a metal pipe, raping her and leaving her for dead. When she was found three hours later, she had lost three-quarters of her blood and had lapsed into a coma...