Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...imprisonment for two terrorist bombings in Birmingham in 1974. The defendants had charged that their confessions were extracted under duress; in any case, new evidence had emerged casting doubt on their guilt. Dublin was dismayed again last week when Private Ian Thain, the ) only British soldier convicted of a murder committed during the course of duty in Northern Ireland, was paroled after serving less than 2 1/2 years of a life sentence and reinstated in his old regiment, the Light Infantry...
...testimony was offered by Jose Blandon Castillo, the former director of Panamanian political intelligence and a Noriega adviser until the two men had a falling-out earlier this year. Blandon branded Noriega's Panama a "criminal empire" and cataloged its alleged sins: bribery, kickbacks, money laundering, arms trafficking, kidnaping, murder. Warned Blandon: "This is a new type of political, economic and financial power, one which can even have an influence here in the United States...
...imprint deepened when Ramon Matta Ballesteros, a Honduran drug dealer, returned from Colombia in 1986 and settled in the capital city of Tegucigalpa. Matta, who has been described as a chief contact between the Medellin suppliers and Mexican smugglers, is wanted by the DEA in connection with the 1985 murder in Mexico of DEA Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar. In Honduras, which does not allow extradition, Matta is living the good life, flamboyantly dispensing money to the poor who line up outside his palatial estate. His assets are said to amount to more than $1 billion; he reportedly paid $2 million...
...change that put them on board, the ship's narrator-captain treats them fairly, admires their sailorly skills and forgets to his peril that they are, after all, women. An austere career man identified only as Tom or the Captain, he leads the mixed crew bravely through mutiny, internecine murder and nuclear winter, until at last he confronts the cunning of Lieut. Girard, the ship's ranking female. "She carried that greatest of all handicaps that may befall a woman," Tom laments before falling for her. "She was simply too bright for most men of this world...
Massachusetts courts will decide whether to admit polygraph tests in four different cases currently on trial. The defenses of three cases involving sexual assault and one of murder are arguing to admit defendants' liedetector tests as evidence...