Word: lethality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...battle between Mia Farrow and Woody Allen. But the Fox network will dredge it all up again next week in Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story, a two-part, four-hour rehash of Farrow's career and marriages and, of course, her nasty dustup with Allen. PATSY KENSIT (Lethal Weapon 2), as Mia, and DENNIS BOUTSIKARIS (Boys on the Side), as Woody, at least look the parts. Boutsikaris says he was "panicked" at the prospect of portraying a living person but finally decided, "If you think you can play Woody Allen...
...Cockroaches come out at night," intones a voice-over announcer in German. On three television screens, larger-than-life cockroaches crawl over sausages and bread. "They breed all over the world," continues the announcer. "For health reasons alone they must be exterminated." Scientists appear, wielding pipettes and tanks of lethal gas. Piles of cockroach cadavers are swept up into dustpans...
Indeed, in Massachusetts the killings prompted local antiabortion groups to admit a possibility they have long resisted: that "peaceful" protests using such incendiary epithets as murderer and baby killer may create a climate for acts of lethal violence. "The rhetoric doesn't help in any respect," says Philip Lawler, spokesman for the Boston chapter of Operation Rescue. "We're learning that it doesn't help to be shouting things...
...last Wednesday, he was strapped to a gurney in Huntsville state prison, his arms pierced by needles attached to intravenous tubes that would carry a lethal dose of metabolic poison moments later. Jacobs, 44, devoted most of his last earthly words to protesting the injustice of his death. "There is not going to be an execution," he said, his voice wavering and his eyes filled with tears. "This is premeditated murder by the appointed district attorney and the State of Texas. I am not guilty of this crime...
...nations that can't afford brand-new weaponry, the Pentagon is literally giving away older but still lethal pieces of its cold war arsenal. Pentagon officials say such gifts help nurture closer ties between U.S. and foreign militaries and save millions of dollars that the Defense Department would otherwise have to pay to scrap arms. Among recent donations: Egypt received 700 M-60 tanks and nearly 1,500 machine guns; Israel was handed 15 F-15 fighters and 16 CH-53 helicopters; Mexico took in 48,178 M-1 carbines. Greece and its nemesis Turkey -- both U.S. allies that already...