Word: kill
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When the original threat to kill Cicippio was made Monday, his captors demanded the release of a Shiite Moslem cleric Israeli commandos kidnapped July 28. The new terms include release of unspecified "Palestinian and Lebanese" guerrillas...
...group had threatened to kill Higgins, calling him a "proven spy," if Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid were not freed. The influential Moslem cleric was kidnapped in a raid by Israeli commandos Friday...
...request full-time protection an average of $225,000 a year. De Becker provides the staffs and publicists of celebrities with 20 pointers to help them screen letters or calls. A direct threat is not necessarily a good indicator of true danger, he says. " 'I'm going to kill you' is as common as a fan letter to many of these people." But, he adds, "it becomes different if someone says, 'I've sold my house, and I'm coming to get you.' " De Becker and his staff of 31 are currently keeping tabs on 5,400 people...
Delving further into the sparrow toll, which accounted for 16% of the total feline catch, the scientists concluded that from a third to a half of all sparrow deaths were attributable to cats. Extrapolating these figures, they estimated that cats kill at least 20 million birds a year in Britain. "Yet," write the authors indignantly, "we are supposed to be a nation of bird lovers, many of whom keep cats but still castigate bird hunters and trappers on the continent of Europe...
...promoters of Big Bird let themselves be cast as champions of the Beastie Boys -- not just of their right to perform but of their performance itself? Why should it be left to Gore to express moral disapproval of a group calling itself Dead Kennedys (sample lyric: "I kill children, I love to see them...