Word: men
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaders of the former regime were not brought swiftly to trial, armed radical guerrillas would then take vengeance into their own hands. "I'm disappointed by the way the trials have been conducted under closed auspices," says Princeton's Richard Falk, "but we must remember that those men executed were implicated in crimes against their people. In that context, we can compare their punishments with war criminals in Germany and Japan who were killed for crimes against humanity...
...machine-gun fire, scaled the 8-ft. fence surrounding his one-story stucco house and blew it up with explosives. Although Zambia had beefed up its defensive capabilities with a new supply of British weapons after a humiliating raid on ZAPU camps last October, the Rhodesians claimed that their men returned home without suffering a single death or injury...
...filled with strange stories about youthful rebellion. In Shanghai, thousands of unemployed youths who had illegally returned from enforced stints in the countryside rioted near a city employment office in protest against the lack of jobs. According to some wall posters, unemployment had forced girls into prostitution and turned men to become beggars and thieves. The Hunan Daily thundered against "pickpockets, vagabonds and criminals," and reported that five party officials had been fired for staging "wild parties." A Nanjing (Nanking) newspaper told of a witchcraft murder and a resurgence of fortunetelling and divination...
...John Paul's view, men spend years preparing to take vows, and once they have done so, that commitment should be indissoluble. He spoke of "the inner maturity" and "personal dignity" of "keeping one's promise to Christ, made through a conscious and free commitment to celibacy for the whole of one's life." A priest, he then added, should not seek an "administrative" remedy, as though a matter of conscience were not involved...
...fall. The cause of death was heart failure and fluid in the lungs; the corpse had bruises on the face and neck. Shortly before he vanished, Lestrem, a defense lawyer and former judge, had prepared a writ of habeas corpus-on his own behalf. He had discovered that unknown men were looking for him and feared that he would become yet another of Argentina's "desaparecidos...