Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Khomeini's reassertion of radical Islamic rejectionism soon claimed his appointed successor, Ayatullah Ali Montazeri, 65, as a victim. Montazeri had harshly criticized the war with Iraq and did not endorse the killing of Rushdie. In late March he was forced to resign.
Many of the tales behind the numbers are horrifying. In Springfield, Mass., last April, a 13-year-old girl was walking through a park with a girlfriend when she was allegedly attacked by five boys no older than 16. They fondled her breasts and appeared to be preparing to rape...
The entertainment media play a powerful role in the formation of values. Today's children, unlike those of earlier generations, are fed a steady diet of glorified violence. Television cartoons feature dehumanized, machinelike characters, such as the Transformers and Gobots, engaged in destructive acts. But viewers see no consequences. Victims...
But armed patrols with red armbands still march near Tiananmen Square, where the troops of the 27th Army crushed China's popular pro-democracy student movement, killing or wounding thousands of people.
7--A devastating earthquake rocks Soviet Armenia, killing 50,000 and levelling several cities. Cambridge, whose sister city is Yerevan in Armenia, raises funds and sends doctors to the site of the disaster.