Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaza Strip village of Dir el-Bel-lah, troops destroyed ten Arab houses in direct reprisal for the murder of a young Jewish settler. On the West Bank, bulldozers leveled the entire town of Jiftlig (prewar pop. 6,000) because it was a suspected staging area for terrorist units...
...Bahrain and Qatar, sending part of their paychecks back to their families. Several hundred others have gone by secret mountain trails into Syria, where they undergo training with El Fatah or one of the other terrorist groups that send commandos into Israel to avenge their fathers' sufferings by murder, arson and sabotage. At least four of the camp's sons died in raids last month alone. This activity is a source of fierce but guarded pride among the camp's fathers, who tell visitors rather unconvincingly that they "don't try to know about" such activity...
...Kidwell's wife had been shot four times in the heart either after or before he had intercourse with her. Afterward, the prosecution version continued, Kidwell shot himself twice in the chest in a suicide attempt. The first jury believed the prosecution and convicted Kidwell of first-degree murder. But at last week's second trial, granted because of errors committed at the first, the essential ingredient was something new-an hour-long video tape of Kidwell reliving the murder under the influence of a drug...
...Topeka, Kans., courtroom last week, the lights were flicked off and judge and jury sat enthralled as a deadly serious story began to unfold on TV screens in front of them. The central figure. Thomas Kidwell, 47, had already been convicted of the murder of his promiscuous wife-although he could not remember much about what had happened before he was found in his wrecked car with her nude body on the floor...
...tape is not likely to be surpassed soon for dramatic impact. In preparation for the second trial, Kid-well's lawyer had sent him to the nearby Menninger Clinic in the hope that he would tell doctors there a clearer story about the murder night than he had yet told anyone else. Psychiatrist Joseph Satten, chief of Menninger's law and psychiatry division, decided to try sodium amobarbital, which, though not a truth drug, can help a patient relive a traumatic experience he is unconsciously trying to avoid. Dr. Satten also decided to put the results on video...