Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stunning accusation threw salt on newly reopened wounds. Scarcely had a Buffalo jury convicted two inmates of involvement in the fatal beating of Prison Guard William Quinn during the 1971 uprising at Attica (TIME, April 14) than the news broke that a former chief aide to Attica Special Prosecutor Anthony G. Simonetti had charged that there had been a cover-up in the investigation of the revolt. Malcolm H. Bell accused his old boss of deliberately impeding the inquiry into possible criminal acts by law enforcement officers...
America cannot escape responsibility for Viet Nam. Nor can the recognition of Saigon's own fatal weakness, which is ultimately to blame, assuage the national grief for the Vietnamese in their final agony. But America did not enlist in the war for life. There cannot be an infinite cycle of protests, recrimination and guilt. The U.S. has paid for Viet Nam-many times over. A phase of American history has finished. It is time to begin anew...
Mclntosh admits that Gill had come to her asking whether to see a doctor about his stomachaches. God told her to say no, and the prophecy proved fatal. But Mclntosh now saw God's plan: that Gill would soon become his own "vindication" by rising from the grave...
...Fatal Beating. Clark, wearing his trademark narrow tie, appeared to have the easier defense. His client, Pernasilice, was accused of joining in the fatal beating of Quinn, yet only one man claimed to have witnessed Pernasilice in the act. Former Inmate Edward Zimmer said he saw Pernasilice strike Quinn over the shoulders with a stick; doctors who examined Quinn found no injuries in that area. In the closing days of the trial, the judge dismissed the murder charge against Pernasilice, but let stand a second for attempted murder. This did not satisfy Clark. The former U.S. Attorney General declared...
Spaniards have grown increasingly restive since Franco reclaimed the powers he briefly relinquished to Prince Juan Carlos, 37, after suffering a near-fatal stroke last summer. The government has grappled uncertainly with the problems assaulting it on all sides. Says one longtime political expert who is now outside Franco's government: "If the present situation is prolonged indefinitely, it will be disastrous...