Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Roman Catholic nuns, Sister Maureen Courtney, 45, of Milwaukee, and Sister Teresa de Jesus Rosales, a Nicaraguan in her early 20s, died last week in a bloody nocturnal ambush 200 miles northeast of Managua, as they drove in a pickup truck from the capital to a church meeting in Puerto Cabezas on the Atlantic Coast. Bishop Paul Schmitz, 46, an American wounded in the attack, . said a rocket-propelled grenade hit the hood of the white Toyota, and "everything just exploded." Automatic-rifle fire pierced the pickup, breaking Schmitz's arm. He and a fourth passenger, Nicaraguan Sister Francesca Colomer...
...nepotism of the house of Ceausescu had put more than 30 of the dictator's family into high offices. By the time he was executed, many of them, including his two sons, his daughter, his sister and two of his brothers, had been arrested and would probably be put on trial. Ceausescu's son Nicu, who directed security troops in a bloody battle in the city of Sibiu, was expected to be executed. A brother, Marin Ceausescu, 74, was found hanged in the Rumanian embassy in Vienna, where he had headed the trade delegation and was widely believed to have...