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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would seem. While Saddam's hold on power appears secure, his subjects are hungry, his weapons of mass destruction are dismantled, and his economy is a shambles. "They just don't have the ability to retaliate," says a diplomat. "If they didn't blow up planes and embassies or kidnap Americans during the Gulf War, they're not going to start now. Saddam has realized he has to come to some sort of modus vivendi with the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broken Spirits | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

Life in the apartment changes when Treat decides to kidnap a well-dressed drunk, but Harold (Ted Kazanoff), also an orphan, turns out to be a professional gangster with a taste for whisky who has fled trouble in Chicago...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Intimate, Intense Orphans | 1/15/1993 | See Source »

Westley Dodd is the man who shook the faith of enough people in the state of Washington to prompt legislators to pass the U.S.'s most unforgiving, possibly unconstitutional, laws against sexual predators. After his sentencing for the kidnap, rape and murder of three little boys in 1989, hardened reporters who covered the case sought counseling to help them handle what they had heard in court. A therapist who treated Dodd even said, "Wes ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Devil's Disciple | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

...years as a child molester, Dodd showed a gift for rebuking the justice system. With each arrest, he passed like a cold breeze through the court system and mental health institutions and wound up back where he had started: hunting children in public parks and devising new schemes to kidnap, mutilate, drown, strangle or suffocate them. Time and again, the courts reduced the charges, suspended the sentence, offered therapy over incarceration. "Each time I entered treatment, I continued to molest children," he told the court. "I liked molesting children and did what I had to do to avoid jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Devil's Disciple | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

...smuggled in from Egypt, bought from Israeli criminals or stolen from soldiers. Head-on clashes with Israeli troops became more common. The events that provoked last month's deportations and mass arrests included two machine-gun attacks on army jeeps, resulting in the deaths of four soldiers and the kidnap and murder of a border policeman inside Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Victims Or Victors? | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

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