Word: henchmen
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...only a few minutes earlier at L'Ecole Nationale Argentine Bellegarde, a Port-au-Prince elementary ) school. What he saw was a polling place turned into a killing ground. Bodies lay everywhere, some riddled by bullets, others hacked to pieces by machetes. A band of 50 Tonton Macoutes, former henchmen of the Duvalier family, had slaughtered almost a score of people as they lined up to vote...
...arms-for- hostages scandal was revealed last November. It reached a peak last month during an extraordinary televised confession by Mehdi Hashemi, a leading radical politician and a close associate of the Ayatullah Hussein Ali Montazeri, 64, Khomeini's officially designated successor. Hashemi and a number of henchmen were arrested on charges of murder, kidnaping and sedition. According to reports from Tehran, the state's evidence includes such exotic weapons as vials of cyanide, booby-trapped shoes, exploding ink pens and remote-control model airplanes equipped with explosives. In early December, Khomeini ordered the government to "fully prosecute" the case...
...Watergate scandal escalated only because of Nixon's cover-up. His demise was the result, not of an "error" by his henchmen, but of his willful deceit, his lying to the American people...
Across the East River in another federal courthouse in Brooklyn, a jury was being selected for the racketeering trial of the most powerful of all U.S. Mafia families: the Gambinos. Here a younger, more flamboyant crime boss strutted through the courtroom, snapping out orders to subservient henchmen, reveling in his new and lethally acquired notoriety. John Gotti, 45, romanticized in New York City's tabloids as the "Dapper Don" for his tailored $1,800 suits and carefully coiffed hair, has been locked in prison without bail since May, only a few months after he allegedly took control of the Gambino...
Denley had shown the agent a contract with a mysterious Dutch organization, the Ansus-Foundation, to overthrow the Surinamese government. He and his henchmen apparently planned to pose as financiers interested in opening a bank and then kidnap several of the country's leftist leaders. The FBI agent later agreed to provide ten mercenaries along with various weapons and join up with the six soldiers of fortune recruited by Denley. Last week FBI and Customs Service agents arrested 14 individuals, including Denley, a former U.S. Customs officer. Agents found 13 handguns, two semiautomatic rifles, two shotguns and 1,000 rounds...