Word: murderousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Barbie, 73, has already been twice convicted in absentia, in 1952 and 1954, of an extensive list of war crimes in Vichy France, including the murder of 4,342 people and the deportation to concentration camps of 7,591 Jews, most of whom perished. His name is guaranteed to live in French infamy for one deed alone, the torture-murder of Jean Moulin, the French Resistance hero and Charles de Gaulle's representative to the underground. But because the statute of limitations has run out on many of his crimes, the career Nazi official will not stand trial for most...
...same way. Richard Secord's joking reminder to the committee investigating the Iran-Contra scandal that at least he was not on Bimini is a sad indication of our citizenry's misplaced priorities. It reminds us that most Americans would prefer a president who supports the endless murder of the innocent to a president who commits adultery...
...quickly drowned last week in a flood of self-serving political rhetoric from all sides. At the funeral, Ortega charged that Linder had been "assassinated by mercenaries following orders from the CIA." Several American groups opposed to U.S. funding of the contras similarly held the Reagan Administration responsible for "murder." Linder's father also fingered Washington, declaring,"Who killed Ben? He was killed by someone, they were hired by someone, and they were paid by someone, and so on down the line to < the President of the U.S." The contras tried to pin blame on Managua by charging the Sandinista...
...knows too much about too many. His lawyer is Jacques Verges, most recently the defender of the Arab terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, sentenced last February to life imprisonment by a French tribunal for complicity in the killings of two diplomats, one of them an American, and in the attempted murder of a third. With Verges' help, Barbie is quite capable of turning the tables, of forcing a trial of France under the Occupation...
Verges and Barbie will probably try to blur the distinctions. They may go further and remind France that the nation was itself guilty of torture and murder during the Algerian conflict. War is war, they may say. In war everything is allowed. As Barbie remarked to one journalist, "The point is to win. It doesn't matter...