Word: slain
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Dean Kahler, who was paralyzed below the waist as a result of the shootings, received $350,000, the largest part of the settlement. The other eight wounded students received amounts between $15,000 and $42,500, while the families of the four slain students received $15,000 each...
There have been two waves of Kennedy historiography. The first wave mythologised the slain president and created the stained-glass image of a man who could do no wrong. In foreign affairs he was depicted as the great "liberal" who had saved the world during the Missile Crisis and led the United States out of the Cold War and into a new, more hopeful era of detente with the Soviet Union. Likewise, in domestic affairs, he was pictured as the champion of civil rights and the hero of the underprivileged. It seemed that Kennedy had done little, if anything wrong...
...feud between Galante and Dellacroce turned bloody, more than a score of their soldiers were slain. Then federal authorities revoked Galante's parole last spring from an earlier 15-year narcotics sentence on the unassailable grounds that he had been "associating with known criminals." At Dellacroce's urging, the Mafia commission in September not only decreed that Galante no longer headed the Bonanno family but let out a contract on his life...
Unlike past political races in Mississippi, Dantin's victory in the Democratic primary has not assured him a spot in the Senate. Strong challenges from a Republican and an Independent stand between Dantin and the Eastland legacy. Both Thad Cochran, a Republican Congressman, and Charles Evers, brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, plan to be spoilers...
...Speitel was the latest in a month-long string of triumphs for West German antiterrorist forces. After more than a year of intensive man hunting, they are closing in on the country's elusive urban guerrillas. Of the 25 most wanted terrorists, twelve have now been apprehended or slain. Among the other coups...