Word: knifepoint
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...Harvard student and his friend from Holy Cross were robbed at knifepoint in the Radcliffe Quad around 4 a.m. Saturday. Harvard police and one of the victims said yesterday...
This time round things are different. In recent years, I have been mugged twice at knifepoint. Friends have been raped. Stories have been told about knives, and facial rearrangement. I'm sure this is the same for many students here. No longer are our fears transfused, as in childhood, into wonderful creatures and cosmic events. The annual festival of awakened demons, Halloween, has turned into a kinky excuse for parties, a chance to don leather garments and paint your face white. No one can seriously be chilled by a cemetery's annual effluence, when the roads outside present many more...
...accused rapist: a drifter from Georgia. The accuser: a 22-year-old woman who was wearing a white lace miniskirt, a green tank top and no underwear on Nov. 6, 1988, when she claimed she was kidnaped at knifepoint from a Fort Lauderdale restaurant parking lot and raped twice. The jury's verdict last week: not guilty, on the ground that she had solicited sex. "We all feel she asked for it for the way she was dressed," explained jury foreman Roy Diamond...
...that youthful offenders are becoming more violent is everywhere. Two Denver students have been charged with stabbing a man to death so they could steal his credit cards and use them to buy camping equipment. At a Los Angeles Greyhound station, a 15-year-old girl was kidnaped at knifepoint by two men, held captive for five days and repeatedly raped. She managed to escape and flagged down a passing car. "Get me out of here!" she begged the three teenagers inside. They did, and took her to a park in East Los Angeles, where the eldest of the boys...
...most serious incident so far, Yanira Corea, a 24-year-old Salvadoran activist, was forced at knifepoint by two men who spoke with Salvadoran accents into a van outside the downtown-Los Angeles office of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, a group opposing U.S. policies in Central America. For several hours, she told police, she was kept blindfolded in the van as her abductors cut her hands, burned her with cigarettes and sexually assaulted her, while they questioned her about CISPES' activities and membership. When they set her free, says Corea, the kidnapers told...