Word: murder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...murder us!" the crowd chanted. They also chanted such slogans as "write truthfully," "free unions" and "Jakes to the dustbin...
When the action shifts to his minimalist pad, where he surprises his lover in bed with a boyfriend, he caroms between Noel Coward worldliness and Edward Albee combat, hinting at suicide, half attempting murder. In earlier versions of the play, the bloody pathos of opera found a parallel: the abandoned man stabbed his lover, then held him in a last embrace. That ending felt arch. This one feels anticlimactic, void of release. So does the end of an affair, an event McNally chronicles with specific detail and authentic, universal pain...
Ortega's final decision to call off the cease-fire was apparently dictated by the murder following his return to Managua of four civilians at an agricultural cooperative in San Miguelito, southeast of the capital, an attack the government pinned on the contras. At a sunrise press conference the next morning, an emphatic, often stinging Ortega insisted that his government "cannot continue being patient" in the face of contra "terrorism" and would "hit the contras hard." The Nicaraguan President blamed Washington's refusal to disband the contras for the resumption of fighting and hinted darkly that U.S. backing...
...precise toll exacted by the drug lords is hard to certify: Colombian journalists are also targeted by leftist guerrillas and rightist death squads. In a new report titled "Murder: The Ultimate Censorship," the Inter American Press Association notes, "Nowhere is this struggle between the forces of darkness and the forces of light more clearly drawn than in Colombia." Some of the country's ablest reporters have fled into exile or gone into hiding, their voices effectively silenced. Others admit their news judgment has been affected...
CROSS OF FIRE (NBC, Nov. 5 and 6, 9 p.m. EST). Romance, murder and revenge -- you'll get it all in this fact-based mini-series about the rise and fall of a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Indianapolis. Starring John Heard (Beaches, Big) and Mel Harris (thirtysomething...