Word: murderousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charges, and the case is not scheduled for trial until January 21. So the University is right to be cautious in its pronouncements on the matter. Compared, however, to the University's response to Loury's problems in June, when he was charged with assaulting and threatening to murder a woman he was sharing an apartment with, Steiner's statement becomes problematic...
...UNIVERSITY didn't say, "We take seriously any charge of threatened murder or assault." The different responses make the University seem to find possession of small amounts of drugs more serious than a violent domestic encounter. Harvard can thus be thought to be telling the community that it shares the traditional--and sexist--notion that domestic disputes between men and women are to be expected, that men will be men, and that sometimes a few good kicks can do wonders for a relationship...
...June when a pit bullterrier savagely attacked and killed James Soto, 2 1/2, a toddler who had wandered into a neighbor's backyard. Willie, the muscular, 60-lb. dog responsible for the mauling, was subsequently destroyed. Last week Willie's owner, Michael Patrick Berry, 37, was formally charged with murder...
...shadowy death-squad allies. But unforgiving El Salvador had appeared in recent years to forget the pursuit of its beloved Archbishop's assassins -- until last week. Speaking to reporters at the Ilopango military air base, President Jose Napoleon Duarte announced that an informant had linked Romero's murder to Roberto d'Aubuisson, Duarte's rightist political foe and a former army major long suspected of masterminding the killing. Said the President: "At this moment, I am telling the people and the world that I have completed my promise to uncover this abominable crime...
...charged. Duarte's Christian Democratic Party has a clear majority in the legislature, 33 seats, compared with the 13 of D'Aubuisson's Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). Duarte, who defeated D'Aubuisson in the bitterly contested 1984 presidential election, did not directly accuse his rival of the murder, merely saying that the "investigation commission and the government have done their jobs; it is now up to the judges...