Word: murdering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Swahili cry went up in the mountains of Central Africa: "Dian kufa!": Dian is dead. The victim of the slaying was American Anthropologist Dian Fossey, 53, author of the 1983 best seller about her work, Gorillas in the Mist. No one has ever been punished for the machete murder -- a ghastly end for a gentle soul...
...outlook for fair elections in Haiti grew darker last week with the murder of a presidential candidate, apparently by plainclothes police. Lawyer Yves Volel, 54, was shot in the head in front of police headquarters in Port-au- , Prince as he protested the plight of political prisoners held without charges. Journalists on the scene identified his attackers as detectives in the police force's notorious criminal-research bureau...
...Nicaragua makes it impossible to determine whether the majority of Nicaraguans consider it legitimate (polling in Nicaragua is prohibited), we can only judge it on its past actions. Would a truly legitimate government need to censor the press, force all opposition candidates out of its "free" presidential elections, and murder, torture, and jail political dissenters? Opposition leaders, such as Edgar Chamorro, Arturo Cruz, Maria Aristides Sanchez, and Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, are surely much more legitimate representatives of the Nicaraguan people than Ortega and the Sandinistas...
...ready surplus of football majors still nursing old college dreams on loading docks and in convenience stores. (How many of them there are standing by!) Included were a prisoner or two, along with a couple of prison guards for competitive balance, but only one man under indictment for murder...
Each year some 300 children in the U. S. murder one or both of their parents. Increasingly, they argue that abuse drove them...