Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most journalists at last week's conference held out little hope for reforming the way death is covered. "We have a commercial interest in catastrophe," admits Milwaukee Journal editor Sig Gissler. The most realistic changes that can be hoped for, agreed the journalists, are slight improvements in tone and treatment. Said Newsday columnist Sydney Schanberg: "If we see only five seconds instead of 30 seconds of ghoulish film, we've made progress...
...body of the fourth, a 14-year-old named Stompie Mokhetsi, was located last week in a mortuary where it had lain unidentified for more than five weeks. It bore stab wounds in the throat. Meanwhile, a football-team member, Maxwell Madondo, 19, was found hacked to death in Soweto...
...church refuge only to protect them from sexual abuse by the white minister, an accusation that the Methodist Church leadership dismisses as a smoke screen. She insists that the abuse would have been confirmed in court by her physician, Dr. Abu-Baker Asvat, but he was shot to death in his office late last month by two men posing as patients. According to Johannesburg's Sunday Star, however, Dr. Asvat examined the captives at the Mandela house and could have testified that they had been savagely beaten...
With Khomeini's death sentence hanging over his head, Rushdie issues an apology but remains reviled by millions of Muslims. It is an extraordinary controversy, stretching from the dusty streets of the Middle East to the bookstores of America. -- What Muslims find blasphemous in The Satanic Verses. -- Salman Rushdie, born in Bombay, educated at Cambridge...
PRESS: When reporters knock on death's door...