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...only does a woman have to endure the humiliation and terror of gang rape, but she must now see her trial become a television show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 16, 1984 | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...riot police. Soon the dingy town of 17,000 was a battleground. One young man had his hand blown off by a concussion grenade; another was hit in the face with a tear-gas canister and lost his lower lip. In the nearby town of Réhon, a gang of workers set fire to an elegant château frequented by factory managers; volunteer firemen, themselves off-duty steelworkers, refused to fight the blaze. When the long night was finally over, 15 people had been injured and 25 arrested in eight hours of skirmishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: An Ugly Backlash in Lorraine | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...latest Proutrage--its newsletter solicitation for gang rape comes on the heels of, as I recall, a mass alcohol overdose at one party and the permanent crippling of a student at another. Surely (I hope) the administration would have cracked down on a group that fostered racism or anti-semitism under the pretense of imbecilic but victimless boozing. Why is sexism different' Perhaps it wouldn't be if there were more than a few women in the administration. In a university that is justly proud of a reputation for fair play, the Pi is an insult to all "Veritas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Close Down The Pi Eta | 4/14/1984 | See Source »

SENTENCED. John Cordeiro, 24; Victor Raposo, 23; and Daniel Silva, 27; Portuguese immigrant laborers who were convicted in a nationally televised trial of gang raping a woman in a neighborhood tavern; each to nine to twelve years in prison; in Fall River, Mass. A fourth defendant, Joseph Vieira, 28, received six to eight years on the same aggravated rape charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 9, 1984 | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

CONVICTED. John Cordeiro, 24, and Victor Raposo, 23, two of the six men charged with gang-raping a 21-year-old woman on a New Bedford, Mass., barroom pool table in March 1983; in Fall River, Mass. Two other defendants were acquitted at last week's trial; the final two, Daniel Silva, 27, and Joseph Vieira, 28, were found guilty on March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 2, 1984 | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

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