Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LAST week the trial proceedings began for three of four men charged with the 1988 murder of Edward Byrne. A 22-year-old rookie cop, Byrne was slain execution-style while seated alone in his patrol car guarding a home in a Queens neighborhood notorious for the proliferation of drug trafficking and drug-related crime...
After Officer Byrne's execution, New York began the development of Tactical Narcotics Teams, designed to fight the proliferation of crack and the crime and murder which it breeds...
...despot declaring a death sentence on another country's citizen whose only crime, at least in Western eyes, was to probe the meaning of his Islamic heritage. In Washington, the State Department said it was "appalled" by Khomeini's statement as well as by the reward for Rushdie's murder. The Dutch Foreign Minister canceled a trip to Tehran. The British government found itself at the center of the controversy -- because Rushdie is a British citizen and because its Tehran embassy, reopened less than three months ago after being closed for eight years, had been attacked by an angry...
...caused on a December night in 1984, when 45 tons of poison gas leaked from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. The deadly methyl isocyanate, a pesticide ingredient, killed more than 3,400 people and injured 200,000. The Indian government charged the company with negligence, brought murder charges against its chief executive, Warren Anderson, and demanded $3.3 billion to settle claims by victims and their families...
...region's long record of sectarian violence, this was the first attack to claim the life of a lawyer. Finucane's murder sent shock waves through Northern Ireland's 1,450-member legal fraternity as Protestant and Catholic lawyers alike feared that they too could become terrorist targets...