Word: hearded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they had found out anything bad about you. If they had, you would be shot. The first killings were private. Then they called in the whole village. Sometimes they would torture somebody in public; they had very long knives at the end of their guns. One day the guerrillas heard that someone had informed on a neighbor 14 years ago for stealing cattle from a European farm. The informant, an old man, was killed along with his wife and first-born child. A chief had his eyes punched out, then he was pulled into his grass hut and burned alive...
...Frenchman's suit will not be the first of its kind heard in Soviet courts; particularly in the late 1950s and early 1960s, hundreds of citizens of the U.S.S.R. and many foreigners who had been unjustly imprisoned had filed successful damage claims against the government. Genrikh Rubezhov, 50, the Moscow lawyer assigned to Maloumian's case, has tried more than a score of similar suits and has won them...
...investigators continued their post-mortem on the Pennsylvania accident, an advisory panel recommended installation of expensive new monitoring instruments at all 43 of the U.S.'s pressurized-water reactors?the type in use at Three Mile Island. The NRC also heard a complaint from a nuclear analyst for the Tennessee Valley Authority that the reactor's builder, Babcock & Wilcox, had brushed off his warning of a "serious" design problem. Perhaps of greatest immediate import, officials conceded that it may take several more weeks, possibly months, to achieve a "cold shutdown" of the crippled reactor, meaning bringing it down...
Marc R. Paul '82 said yesterday he heard one of the victims run into his dormitory screaming that a man had threatened her. She also said the assailant held a "flashing object," Paul added...
...University police car arrived at this point, responding to a call from a student who heard the screams, Paul said. The policeman "drew his gun and forced the guy to drop his knife," he added...