Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attorney for a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student who last month allegedly kidnapped and attempted to rape an Arlington woman said yesterday that in fact the woman attacked the student first with a razor blade and slashed his throat...
...Serbs complain that the Kosovo Albanians have launched a campaign of terror and rape to drive them out of the heavily Albanian province. Says Radomir Smiljanic, a well-known Serbian writer: "The harassment of women has become so common that Serbs have to accompany their wives and daughters to work and school." Officials in Kosovo vehemently deny the charges, and non- Serbs elsewhere agree they have been wildly exaggerated by the Serbian press...
...disciplinary problems that follow. At the University of New Hampshire, for example, freshmen constitute more than half of all students who end up at the health services for overconsumption of alcohol and drugs. Drinking also makes students more vulnerable to other dangers. Between 70% and 80% of all acquaintance rapes at U.N.H. are alcohol-related. "Freshmen are at high risk for acquaintance rape," says Kathleen Gildea-Dinzeo, a health-education counselor, "because there's a lot of going out to parties, wanting to meet people and not being sure of boundaries...
DESCRIPTION: Average sentences for blacks and for whites convicted of murder, rape, kidnaping, robbery, arson, drug trafficking and drug possession, as well as for all crimes; color illustration of black person and white person on scales...
...papers had seen the Cohen case as an aberration. But even before the verdict was read, the Star Tribune faced the threat of a new breach-of-contract suit. Free-Lance Writer Martha Thomas sold an article to the paper's Sunday magazine telling the inside story of a rape trial. Thomas interviewed the defense lawyer on condition that her name not appear. But Star Tribune editors insisted that, because the trial was open to the public, it was fair to name names. Late last week the newspaper pulled all 625,000 copies of its Sunday magazine rather than risk...