Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...involving the shooting of an Oakland policeman, he earned a doctorate from the University of California. But after J. Edgar Hoover's FBI targeted the group, many of his fellow Panther leaders were killed, jailed or driven underground, and Newton's life returned to its meaner roots. Charges of murder and assault led to conviction for possessing a gun. There followed a string of drug offenses, drunk driving and embezzling $15,000 from a Panther-operated school...
...setting ruling, New York Judge Gerald Sheindlin questioned the reliability of certain procedures employed by Lifecodes Corp., one of the nation's leading DNA-testing firms. Sheindlin agreed that DNA techniques "are generally accepted in the scientific community and can produce reliable results." But he ruled that in the murder case of Bronx janitor Joseph Castro, Lifecodes "failed in several major respects to use the generally accepted scientific techniques and experiments for obtaining reliable results...
...less fortunate fell into the hands of Goring's police and ended up in a little village outside Munich where the Nazis had built their first concentration camp. It was called Dachau. This was not yet the era of the gas chambers but rather of the truncheon, not mass murder but the gradual silencing of all opposition. "They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist," said Pastor Martin Niemoller, a former U-boat commander who had once briefly supported the Nazis but eventually spent four years in Dachau. "Then they...
Treachery, lies and murder -- those were the hallmarks of Adolf Hitler's launching of World War II. The German Wehrmacht had its orders to invade Poland at dawn of Sept. 1, 1939, but the first killings actually occurred the night before near a border town called Gleiwitz. There German SS troops took twelve prisoners from the Oranienburg concentration camp outside Berlin, ordered them to dress in Polish army uniforms, then injected them with poison and shot them. The twelve "Polish casualties" were dumped in a forest near the village of Hochlinde to be exhibited later to the foreign press...
Solidarity, long an outlaw, forms a new coalition to take over from the bankrupt regime in Warsaw, but the army and the police remain under Communist , control. Eyeing each other, Washington and Moscow promise to let Poland be Poland. -- Beirut's battling factions threaten finally to murder the city itself...