Word: slain
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...memorial service organized by the Hillel Coordinating Council, the crowd quietly gathered to listen as members of Hillel and President Neil L. Rudenstine mourned the slain prime minister...
...averted its eyes from his long and disgraceful record of murder and destruction. It should not be considered melodramatic to associate the "red carpet" with which Arafat was welcomed with the blood of the countless thousands of innocent men, women and children whom he and his henchmen have slain in the course of the malicious history of the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...argument to be made for it. However, even if one believes that the time has come in the Middle East for governments and terrorists to negotiate a peace, there is still a distinction between approaching Arafat and embracing him. The memories of all those whom he has slain cry out against such blasphemy...
...catharsis. Simpson faces two lawsuits stemming from the double murder, one filed by the parents of murder victim Ron Goldman, Fred Goldman and Sharon Rufo (the two are divorced but have now joined their suits); and another on behalf of Nicole Brown's estate (Louis Brown, father of the slain Nicole, is the estate's executor). Depositions in the Goldman suit were to have started this week but were postponed until Oct. 30 after Simpson hired a new attorney, civil litigator Robert Baker. It's rare for acquitted criminal defendants to be hit with such suits, which carry no jail...
Russia's last Czar, Nicholas II, and his family will be reburied next February in the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Petersburg. The family was slain by the Bolsheviks in Ekaterinburg in 1918, and their remains (minus those of son Alexei and daughter Anastasia) were exhumed in 1992; DNA tests later confirmed the imperial identities...