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...American public should not be made to feel guilty when a "classic posturing punk" who committed a heinous crime and had his day in court is finally removed from our midst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 23, 1983 | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...Orange or Chatham County that does not have a better bathroom. It is plainer than an old shoe." Beyond that, the Landmark went on to insinuate that the management of the News & Observer has been known to "push biddies in the creek." Windsor admits he made up this heinous crime, drowning chicks, but says he was sore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In North Carolina: Beware of Falling Cows | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

That rape, and especially gang rape, is a crime of terrifying seriousness need hardly be repeated. But the particularly heinous and peculiar nature of this rape merits special attention. This rape had an audience. In fact, there were at least a dozen men in Big Dan's Tavern that night who watched and cheered as the victim suffered. Not one man, not even the bartender, moved to stop the rapists. No one called the police. Their reaction, or rather lack of one, to what must have been a gruesome spectacle is more than reprehensible it is mind-boggling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Waking Up To Horror | 3/17/1983 | See Source »

Last week Barbie, 69, was back in Lyon, locked away in Montluc, the prison where he tortured and jailed thousands. The full details of his heinous past and his flight from justice have yet to be told, but when he is brought to trial a third time, a Pandora's box of incriminating evidence against a number of French collaborators may be opened. The trial could even provide embarrassing details of a U.S. scheme to enlist the former Gestapo officer as an intelligence source after World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Exorcising Old Ghosts | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

...found guilty of "towering and heinous" crimes and unceremoniously hustled out of court, defiantly screaming, "Down with revisionism!" Jiang Qing, now 69, Chairman Mao's headstrong widow and imperious ringleader of the leftist Gang of Four, was sentenced to death, but given two years in prison to repent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Defying Death | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

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