Word: murderousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed impressive in a country of only 2.2 million people, neither the opposition nor the government is unified. One government rift became apparent last week, when Vice President Roderick Esquivel called upon President Eric Arturo Delvalle to form a commission to look into allegations that have implicated Noriega in murder, drug trafficking and election fraud. Esquivel's maneuver was a rebuke to the civilian President, who a few days earlier had publicly told his Attorney General to investigate the charges. Opposition forces objected that the Attorney General was under Noriega's influence. By siding with the opposition, Esquivel publicized...
...that Noriega had forced him from office in 1985. Barletta claimed his ouster had been engineered by Noriega after Barletta had pressed for an investigation into the killing of Dr. Hugo Spadafora, a leading critic of the Panamanian military. Diaz has gone further, charging Noriega with masterminding Spadafora's murder...
...reckless transmission of the AIDS virus comparable to attempted murder? The courts try to cope with a new deadly weapon...
...friends and who seem disinclined to hurry. And Rusty has an emotional tie to this case that he cannot reveal to any of his fellow professionals. Some months earlier, he had risked his career and his marriage of 17 years on a passionate affair with the murder victim. After a month or so, she jilted him and took up with Horgan...
Unfortunately, Rusty is also given to occasional delusions of Dostoyevsky. "I have seen so much," he begins at one point, brooding over his liaison with the murder victim, and then recites a litany of misery, concluding, "The lights go out, grow dim. And a soul can stand only so much darkness. I reached for Carolyn." As excuses for adultery go, Rusty's sounds more than a little pretentious...