Word: murderousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trial opened last week, Goetz, 39, an electronics technician, faced 13 criminal charges, including four for attempted murder. Defense Attorney Barry Slotnick insisted, however, that Goetz "was the real victim in this case." Slotnick announced that he planned to defend his client by "prosecuting" the four "vicious predators" who surrounded Goetz on the subway car. Despite an admonition from Judge Stephen Crane, Slotnick referred to Goetz's victims as "drug addicts" and attempted to bring up their criminal records. (Two of the four are in jail on other charges, one for the rape of an adolescent girl, and a third...
...them in Concord, N.H. In it, Goetz said the four "wanted to play with me, like a cat plays with a mouse" -- before he assumed a shooter's stance and methodically emptied his pistol at his tormentors. "I know this sounds horrible," he said, "but my intention was to murder them . . . to make them suffer as much as possible...
Those were the central charges in indictments won last week by federal prosecutors against 15 white supremacists. Ten men were accused of sedition by a grand jury in Fort Smith, Ark.; one of them, plus four other men, was also charged with plotting to murder a federal judge and an FBI agent. Three of the Fort Smith defendants and a woman were separately indicted by a grand jury in Denver for depriving Radio Talk Show Host Alan Berg of his civil rights -- by machine-gunning him to death...
...book ends with Walesa's explanation of the private outrage but public silence of many ordinary Poles after the murder by police of Activist Priest Jerzy Popieluszko in 1984. "This death should not go unanswered," writes Walesa. "But our response will be a coolly reasoned one, imposed on us by our conditions and the peaceful means that we have chosen." Yet his overall tone is optimistic. "Sometimes I feel that I already belong to a period of the kind incarnated in our national anthem, Poland Is Not Dead...
With a coat draped over his cuffed hands, the tired-looking man with the Santa Claus beard and soft hat slipped away from his escorts for a moment and lunged toward a crowd of reporters. "What they are doing right now," shouted Karl Linnas, "is murder and kidnaping!" Before he could say more, American immigration officers hustled the 67-year-old Long Island resident into an office at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport. About two hours later Linnas was driven out onto the tarmac and led up a ramp to an Ilyushin Il-62M airliner bound...