Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In its 74 years at Sing Sing Prison, New York State's 2,000-volt electric chair has efficiently ended 614 lives. Last month opponents of capital punishment persuaded the state legislature to pass a bill abolishing execution for all but two classes of murderers-cop killers and life...
Seelenkleister, or brooding about the state of one's soul, has always been a pastime of the Germans, but now they have more than usual cause to engage in it. For years, the economic miracle represented a kind of occupational therapy, a materialist escape; while it remains the dominant...
Wearing their caps backwards to distinguish themselves from the rebels, Imbert's troops proceeded to batter the rebels in a full-scale battle. Clanking through the narrow streets, loyalist tanks fired point-blank into every house suspected of harboring rebels. So vicious was the fighting that a hapless taxi...
Though Barrientos seems to have won the round, the fight is far from over. Lechin's miners, controlled for years by experienced Communists and far-leftist agitators, are well-armed and not likely to give up easily. At week's end, when Barrientos ventured into mining country, gunmen...
Just how the government uncovered the plot was purposely left unclear, but an army captain was gunned down "trying to escape," and more than 40 "dissidents" were arrested, most of them Catholic. Among them, according to one report: Colonel Trang Van Chinh, chief of military security. Still at large, however...