Word: plunders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there are still plenty of graves to plunder and conspiracy theories to test. A team of scientists is planning to exhume the remains of Carl A. Weiss, the doctor who is believed to have assassinated Senator Huey Long of Louisiana back in 1935. Weiss was gunned down at the scene by Long's bodyguards. By analyzing the angles of the bullet holes, the scientists may be able to show that the guards shot Long and killed Weiss to cover their crime. Whether any new light can be shed on that issue by examining a 56-year-old corpse remains unclear...
...with the Sandinistas' shameless pillaging of the country during the two months between their electoral defeat and the day Violeta Barrios de Chamorro took the helm. Nicaraguans refer to those rapacious weeks as "la pinata," after the papier-mache animals that children whack with a stick so they can plunder the candy stuffed inside...
...plunder is the price of defeat in war, what price recovery of the booty? An answer came last week in the controversial case of an American who "liberated" a cache of art treasures from the medieval town of Quedlinburg, where they were hidden by the SS at the end of World War II. The pieces, which include rare manuscripts and a reliquary reputed to contain a lock of hair from the head of the Virgin Mary, ended up back in G.I. Joe Meador's home in Whitewright, Texas. There they remained unnoticed until after Meador's death in 1980, when...
...feel that the violation of Kuwait's sovereignty and the subsequent rape, plunder and systematic dismantling of the country and all of its infrastructure is a matter which should be lightly dismissed...
Another problem with sanctions is that it will never hurt Saddam Hussein and his military before it really hurts the innocent civilians. With Kuwait under his control, Hussein will plunder everything from Kuwait and starve every Kuwaiti to death before any of his Iraqi soldiers will be starved...