Word: slain
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...related murders and disappearances has rocked the island. On a Sunday fishing trip, a former St. Kitts U.N. ambassador, who had been implicated in laundering drug money, simply vanished with his wife and four friends. The son of a Deputy Prime Minister, suspected of stealing drugs from smugglers, was slain; he and his girlfriend were found burned to death in a sugarcane field. Two of the dead man's brothers were later arrested on gun-possession and drug-trafficking charges. While investigating the case, the island's police superintendent was assassinated...
Adopting public policies that "build healthy communities" is the best way to stem violence in America and to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said Deborah Prothrow-Stith, a dean and professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, at a ceremony held Monday afternoon to honor the slain civil rights leader...
...with corpses, sits in the lazily falling snow on the frozen mud road," reports TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. "Some 250 Chechen rebels, their guns and bazookas at ready and their fingers itchy on triggers, have deployed a defense perimeter around the convoy. The corpses in the trucks are their slain accomplices. Some 25 Russian tanks have taken the Chechen defense perimeter in a half-circle. The two sides are separated by less than 300 yards." Despite ongoing negotiations, a top Russian military official on the scene, Major General Alexander Mikhailov, said that a violent conclusion may be necessary: "These bandits...
...Bosnia, Europe's bloodiest conflict since the Second World War, has come to a halt. As many as 200,000 people have been slain in this brutal conflict, and two million more have lost their homes. Even more disturbing than these grim statistics is the character of the brutalies of the war. Systematic executions of civilians, mass rapes and concentration camps--atrocities that the continent had hoped it had left behind forever--belied the west's hopes for a brighter future after the Cold War. This optimism may now have a new lease in the wake of the Bosnian peace...
...also helped by an ability to deliver soaring rhetoric. This year he has given several magnificent speeches: in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Clinton spoke words of comfort and pledged that the justice would be served: at Rabin's funeral, Clinton eloquently described the greatness of the slain prime minister; throughout the budget showdown, Clinton's radio addresses framed the argument as a decision between a future of e pluribus unum or a free for all in which special interests dominate...