Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alarmed by the recent spate of cases in which Americans have supplied U.S. military secrets to the Soviets, the Senate on Friday added an amendment to the defense authorization bill. If enacted, the provision will mandate execution or life imprisonment without parole for anyone convicted of espionage for a Communist...
By then police had obtained warrants charging four occupants of the Move headquarters -- Frank James Africa, Conrad Hampton Africa, Ramona Africa and Theresa Brooks Africa -- with parole violation, contempt of court, illegal possession of firearms, and making terroristic threats. To facilitate the execution of the warrants, authorities on Sunday cordoned...
Day after day on the front pages, night after night on television screens, Argentina is reliving -- and hoping to redeem -- a bloodstained past. Confronting the country are full and grisly accounts of the "dirty war," the years between 1976 and 1981, in which at least 10,000 Argentines either were...
The costumes lighting, and dancing also deserve kudos. The only minor flaws in the production include the lack of an intermission which though not written into the original script could have ben interpolated here because though the cast sustained their momentum for a solid two hours, the audience could have...
The Viet Cong prisoner stood with his hands tied behind his back. General Loan, director of South Viet Nam's national police, coldly raised a revolver to the man's head and fired. The picture of that summary execution during the 1968 Tet offensive (see page 22) horrified Western audiences...