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Word: executioner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The outpouring of democratic energy is the legacy of President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq's July announcement of elections, and a Supreme Court ruling on Oct. 2 allowing political parties to participate fully in the races. The Supreme Court decision followed the mysterious death of Zia in an airplane explosion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan Getting into High Gear | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

For many years it was taken as gospel that Marcos was the most decorated Filipino soldier of World War II. Technically that is true: while running for President in 1965 he nudged the Senate into retroactively awarding him some 20 medals for heroism, nine of them on the same day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mercenary Monsters From Manila THE MARCOS DYNASTY | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

Money poured in from the Hare Krishnas who worked the crowds in airports and at rock concerts. Hubner and Gruson are convinced that drug smuggling was another major source of income. One of the dealers was Charles St. Denis, who, the authors say, was killed for, among other things, withholding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good Hustle, Bad Karma MONKEY ON A STICK | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

A few defectors, particularly central Asians with a genuine commitment to Islam and an antipathy toward European Russians, have reportedly actually taken up arms on the mujahedin side. Almost to a man, the POWs who talked to TIME denied any desire to return to their homeland after the war. "I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prisoners And Converts | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

The concept it was clever, the execution A-OK.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joy in Beantown | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

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