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...head of the right-wing Afrikaner Resistance Movement. It called for Mandela to be shot by a sniper at Johannesburg's Jan Smuts Airport when he returned to South Africa on July 18. The Afrikaner group also allegedly planned to blow up power stations, assassinate Members of Parliament and poison the water supply to the black township of Soweto. Though the South African government did confirm that it had arrested eleven whites, it would say only that they were released after questioning...
...needle into her arm and started a harmless saline solution flowing through the tube. Then he sat back and watched the monitor as she pushed a big red button at the base of the machine. Immediately, the saline was replaced by a pain killer; one minute later came the poison potassium chloride. Within five minutes Janet Adkins, an Alzheimer's disease sufferer who feared an excruciating future, was dead of heart stoppage...
...disease and vow to maintain some dignity in death. And as Kevorkian carried his crusade for legal mercy killing to networks and newspapers around the country, he became a standard-bearer for all those who fail to see a moral difference between unplugging a respirator and plugging in a poison machine. He was quickly dubbed Dr. Death...
...knock at the door that results in mysterious disappearances and often in executions. The penalty for openly speaking ill of him is death. According to Amnesty International, hangings occur on an average of ten to 20 times a month. Appeals for autonomy by rebellious Kurds have been answered with poison gas and forced relocation. Not even presumably loyal army officers are shielded from Saddam's wrath: many died in suspicious helicopter crashes during the gulf...
...consequence is that in Ketzin, 20 km (12 miles) from Berlin, a 56- hectare (140-acre) pile of imported rubbish threatens to poison the groundwater. In January, after the city's angry citizens discovered the source of the heap, they held a protest with banners proclaiming EAST GERMANY IS NOT TO BECOME EUROPE'S TOILET. After the demonstration, East Germany's Environment Minister banned toxic-waste imports to Ketzin...