Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offenses, however, is the viciousness with which they are carried out. When a robbery victim gave up his wallet to Cuban attackers but refused to yield his ring, they hung him from an iron fence by his hand. The ring came off; so did a finger. When a dog snapped at a passing Marielito, the man retaliated by stabbing its owner 17 times. "These are absolutely the meanest, most vicious criminals we've ever encountered," says Los Angeles Police Detective Tony Alvarez. "They have no purpose in life but to kill, rape and maim. They're crazy...
Elsewhere, some frightened citizens are resorting to less elaborate precautions. In the Cleveland suburb of Garfield Heights, Nuns Mary Assumpta and Augustine Marie recently enrolled their Siberian husky Tanya in the nearby Inter national School for Dogs. For about $500 per pet, that academy teaches normally docile canines to bark, growl and bite. "We've had occasions when there have been people trying doors," says Sister Mary of her 32-bedroom convent. At the school, Head Trainer Howard Denton said business stayed strong even during the recession. "Any dog can do protection," he asserts. "I've trained poodles...
...help and into deadly conflict with a possessed spirit. But it is worth waiting for the careful logic of Novelist Stephen King's plot to work itself out. For their demon is not from outer space or the weirder reaches of the occult. No, Cujo is a junkyard dog. But he is huge. And maddened by rabies. And thoroughly implacable in his need to kill. As he proved in Alligator, Director Lewis Teague is a sly and stylish merchant of fear; as she proved in The Howling, Wallace knows how to play a scared lady; and as he proves...
Everyone has heard endless clash-of-cultures tales involving summer folks who invade rural enclaves like Nantucket and Maine. Newly minted ruburbanites get to be treated like interlopers the whole year round. When one commuter stood waiting alone for the last morning train, a dog-walking native asked, "Train late?" "Yes," replied the commuter, thinking he was finally being accepted. "Good," said the native. "Maybe you'll go back where you came from." Sometimes, though, there will be touching signs of grudging welcome. A doorbell will ring, but no one will be there when it is answered. Instead, paper...
...ruthless and tell the Communists, "You will be legitimized, you are going to have your chance to speak out. But don't forget: if you pick up the gun, you're illegal. If I pick it up, I'm legal. I can shoot you like a dog, so don't force my hand like that...