Word: poison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...primaries and immigration policy, and the candidates found little to disagree about. The liveliest moments came when Mondale and Hart rebuked Jackson for not repudiating Farrakhan, the black Muslim leader who made what sounded like a death threat against a black reporter. Mondale asserted that "what Farrakhan said was poison," and Hart wondered why the Muslim had not been subjected to criminal prosecution.* Jackson replied that he had "disassociated myself from the message but not from the messenger" and spoke in a preacher's tones of "forgiveness...
...seeing how well it stands up to abuse-the instinct to kick the tires on a used car-is an ancient and, if Yeats is to be trusted, occasionally charming habit. It can also be painful. Trial by ordeal, the venerable and once widespread practice by which fire or poison or some other divining element is used to determine a person's guilt or innocence, is the kick-to-test instinct applied to living subjects. It used to be a popular method for deciding whether or not someone was a witch, perhaps because what the practice lacked in fairness...
...state of Israel's relations with South Africa is both antisemitic and shortsighted. Surely Blacks themselves have a lot to gain from good relations with American Jews. It is unfortunate that those such as Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan and the authors of this letter have chosen to poison Black-Jewish relations instead of attempting to improve them...
...Iraq is using poison gas [WORLD, April 2], it would use nuclear weapons if it had them. The world is in debt to Israel for destroying the Iraqi nuclear plant a few years...
CONVICTED. Henry Lee Lucas, 47, confessed murderer, who last week increased his claimed total of victims between 1975 and 1983 to 360 across the U.S., saying that he had killed using " 'most every way but poison"; of the strangulation and attempted rape of one of those victims, an unidentified woman hitchhiker; in San Angelo, Texas. Lucas was sentenced to death, and is already under 75-year and life sentences for two other Texas murders and faces at least 18 indictments in five other states...