Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voice, according to Psychologist John Watkins of the University of Montana, came from a sort of Doppelganger, a second and hidden personality of the same Kenneth Bianchi, "a very pure psychopath." It expressed the personality's "general underlying hatred of women" and from time to time seized complete control of the normally mild-mannered Bianchi. It did indeed get him into serious trouble. In January, Bianchi was arrested and charged with strangling two young women, whose bodies were found that month stuffed into the rear of a car in Bellingham. Last week Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates announced...
...conflict of views between the unions and government. The union leaders, whose battle with Callaghan over his proposed 5% wage ceilings led to a bitter winter of strikes and slowdowns, endorsed the message, closing ranks as they had not done for years. Pledging his allegiance to Labor, Moss Evans, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, said that "working with the Tories would be like running a cross-country race barefoot." Sidney Weighell, head of the National Union of Railwaymen, warned that if the Tories win, "I'll tell the lads to stick their noses...
...matter was settled by the drafting of one more supplementary letter, and the ceremony was allowed to proceed, 2½ hours behind schedule. Beneath a rapidly setting sun, Saad Afra, Egypt's Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and Israel's Eliahu Ben-Elissar, Director General of the Premier's Office, formally exchanged the ratified documents, making the treaty official at last...
...trials and executions of military men and former officials that have been conducted by revolutionary courts independent of the new government. Said Bazargan: "I have nothing to do with these tribunals." So far 160 men have been executed by firing squads. The Prime Minister repeated his support for a general amnesty for the Shah's civil servants and military personnel in order to create "a brotherly atmosphere throughout society." As for the komitehs, said Bazargan: "I know that the majority have performed a great service to the revolution, but they have also taken the law into their hands...
Bazargan's impassioned plea for unity came at the end of the state funeral for Major General Vali Ullah Gharani, 65, who had been gunned down in the courtyard of his house by three unknown assailants. The first chief of staff of the army after the revolution, Gharani had been fired from his post in March after his harsh campaign against Kurdish rebels in Sanandaj; nonetheless, he was given full military honors. During the funeral procession, which drew a throng of 50,000 mourners, security guards seized a young man in an air force uniform who was running toward...