Word: rapes
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...under the law?" asked the People's Daily. Earlier this year, the paper published the shocking story of Duan Yuanlai, former director of the Changde City Tobacco Plant. In 1969 he was charged with murder. A witness's false evidence won his acquittal. In 1978 he was charged with rape, but no action was taken when he adamantly denied the charge. In 1981 he was placed under investigation for corruption, but friendly officials refused to pursue the inquiry. The same thing happened two years later. Last year, after party leaders elected Duan a "model worker," he was caught raping another...
...bishops' charges echoed other reports in recent months. Refugees who fled into neighboring Botswana told of beatings, rape and torture by government forces, and of villagers being denied food supplies as a result of a stringent 18-hour curfew and a ban on transport in and out of the region. The bishops' report, which was given to the government two weeks before it was released publicly last week, stung the Prime Minister. Mugabe, 60, who was brought up a Catholic and educated at the Catholic Kutama Mission, wished the churchmen "success in their prayers," but declared that...
...worst mass murder in New York City history, ten people, including eight children, were shot dead, execution-style, in a Brooklyn apartment last week. In New Hampshire, Christopher Wilder's cross-country odyssey of kidnap, rape and murder ended in his shooting death during a struggle with police. In Texas, Henry Lee Lucas, who boasts of killing some 360 people, was condemned to death for one of those murders. Against that shocking tableau of recent criminal violence, many Americans might find it difficult to credit some good news from Washington last week: crime, said the FBI, declined more sharply...
...number of serious crimes reported to the police last year, according to the bureau's Uniform Crime Report, dipped 7%. The downturn comes after a 3% drop in 1982 and no increase in 1981. The 1983 decrease was across the board; violent crimes (murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault) were off 5%, while property crimes fell 7%. The biggest declines: burglary (-10%) and arson (-13%). The trend was consistent throughout the country, affecting communities of all sizes...
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...