Word: henchmen
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After a remote-control bomb killed Chilean exile leader Orlando Letelier and an American aide as they drove through Washington's Embassy Row in 1976, U.S. officials charged that henchmen of Chile's then ruling General Augusto Pinochet had plotted the murders. Four men indicted for the slayings escaped capture or were untouchable in Chile...
...open my notebook. In the vast plaza of Piata Unirii, crowds that would once have been swiftly dispersed by Securitate goons argue the merits of 30 new political parties, then race home to watch Rumania's hot new television show: taped excerpts from the trial of Ceausescu's top henchmen. In the final episode last week, the four defendants were found guilty of complicity in genocide and sentenced to life imprisonment...
...terrorist attacks have killed 689 Israelis and wounded 3799. Civilians have been targeted in incidents such as the massacre of Israeli athletes in the 1972 Munich Olympics. The PLO has financed and trained international terrorists, from the Japanese Red Army to Nicaraguan Sandinistas to Idi Amin's Ugandan henchmen. Arafat's recent overtures cannot camoflauge the blood on his hands...
...inveterate losers, delightedly anticipated being able this fall to field a candidate for mayor who might actually have a chance. Giuliani coyly remarked that "I have not shut the door on the possibility," and incumbent Edward I. Koch, who has been hurt by Giuliani's prosecutions of corrupt henchmen, allowed that the 44- year-old prosecutor would be a "very formidable candidate." Alternatively, the politically untested Giuliani might elect to follow in the footsteps of crime buster Thomas Dewey a half-century ago and run for Governor against Democrat Mario Cuomo next year...
...message and allows the millions of Europeans who sat silently by during the Holocaust to escape the blame of history. It is a cowardly retreat to a position of moral comfort--where it is easy to believe that the Holocaust was the creation of a single madman and his henchmen. The Holocaust was more than the sick dream of a deranged dictator--it was the cheap, dark side of collective human nature unleashed...