Word: kill
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...Life Committee last week threatened to boycott products of any U.S. firm that attempts to market such pills. The group's ire was further raised when the New England Journal of Medicine last week gave high marks to another abortion drug, epostane, developed by Sterling Drug Inc. "These pills kill unborn babies," said committee spokesman Richard Glasow. "They will increase the use of abortion as a method of birth control...
...Minister Yitzhak Rabin instructed his soldiers in late August to start using cartridges tipped with plastic to break up riots in the occupied territories, Palestinian casualties in Gaza alone have leaped from about 20 in July to more than 170 in September. At close range, the bullets can even kill. Not surprisingly, Rabin's latest gambit to crush the intifadeh has provoked yet another round of criticism from abroad and from Israel's far left, which charges Rabin with excessive brutality. But it has also raised a disturbing new question: Are Israeli leaders turning up the violence against Palestinians...
Last week, as seven protesters were killed -- two by plastic bullets -- and more than 90 others wounded, the U.S. State Department rebuked Israel by saying there is "no justification" for deliberately causing Palestinian casualties. Some U.S. officials charge that Rabin's plastic bullets are aimed at the voters. The Defense Minister, considered the No. 2 figure in Israel's Labor Party, dismisses the notion that his new crackdown is politically motivated. But he makes no apologies about stepping up the army's operations. "The rioters are suffering more casualties," he told reporters during a tour of the West Bank. "That...
...called Horton a "coldblooded killer" and said he had broken into the home of a Maryland couple, Cliff and Angie Barnes, torturing her and threatening to kill them both...
...hippie who has invaded his country estate that he didn't mean for his visitor to respond to his songs in such a personal way. "I was just playing with words," he says. The scene is a chilling premonition of John's final encounter with the fan who would kill him, an event depicted in Imagine by a shot of a pair of glasses falling in slow motion to the pavement and shattering...