Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stroessner had been under house arrest near the capital since he was captured early Friday after a night of fighting. The death toll from the coup has been estimated at up to 300, but no official figures have been given...
...stays of execution. But his luck ran out on Jan. 23, when the Supreme Court refused another delay. Cocky and contemptuous at his 1980 trial, Bundy turned remorseful in his final days, offering to confess to an array of unsolved murders. "Ted Bundy feels morally compelled as he faces death to do the right thing," said Diana Weiner, one of his attorneys...
...second paragraph, the author announced that the anti-abortion movement aims to make abortion illegal and send "thousands of women back to the horror and death of self-induced and back alley abortions or the enslavement of forced pregnancy." Later he argued that "forced reproduction is a shackle on all women preventing their full participation in society...
...works such as Summer, Winter and particularly The Triumph of Painting on Parnassus, Testa depicts the virtue and worthiness of both artistry and of the outsider artist, like himself, who will not live the life of worldly pleasures. And his preoccupation with the macabre in earlier works, depicting the death of children and the plague, shows Testa's concern with the encroaching effects of realism as both an artistic style and as a burden to his own unhappy life...
...stumbled into dreamland. To induce transcendence, the children of 1968 borrowed buzzwords from the East: ; karma, Rama, Krishna, om and the sound of one hand clapping. Other equally euphonic names would waken the third eye: marijuana and lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. "The deep psychedelic experience is a death-rebirth flip," said Timothy Leary, the great snake-oil salesman of LSD. "There is no death . . . There is just off-on, in-out, start-stop, light-dark, flash- delay." Jailed in San Luis Obispo, Calif., on a marijuana charge, Leary escaped with the help of the Weathermen. The radical political group...