Word: slain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even a determined Hillary Clinton will find it hard to turn attention away from Pakistan's perils. She arrives little more than two weeks after three U.S. consulate workers were ambushed in Karachi and two of them slain. Some Pakistani officials theorize that the killings could have been meant as a warning against her trip. Pakistani authorities no doubt hope the latest arrests will help calm the atmosphere, even though there is no connection so far between Yousef's associates and the murders. To improve security, in the past week hundreds of militants have been detained...
...Kurdish people are becoming frustrated with their leaders. "This is the worst time in our history, because it is Kurd killing Kurd," says Shazad Saib, a Talabani representative in Ankara. "We are destroying our newly found homeland." A Kurdish poem laments: "Red roses are the blood of brother slain by brother. When will the mountain rose no longer smell of my brother's blood?" Perhaps never...
Republican Gov. George Pataki used the pens of two slain police officers to sign legislation making New York the 38th state with a death penalty. Today's signing ceremony was a major victory for the state legislature, which had 18 straight death penalty bills vetoed by Democratic governors Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo, who was defeated by Pataki in November. The law, which will take effect in September, defines about a dozen offenses punishable by lethal injection, including murders of on-duty cops. It does not apply to juveniles or the mentally disabled. "This law alone won't stop crime...
...surreal floating windows of the French court and the palisade of Calais with its cutaway wall. Daniels uses this backdrop to construct tableaux with his characters, freezing the action on the stage in moments of startling clarity. The image of Henry kneeling among the body bags of slain men, or of the two kings sitting in opposite thrones with their men grouped behind them like chesspieces, linger in the mind's eye like the brief illuminations of a strobe light...
...Benjamin Chavis, has been accused of misusing funds and doing nothing to stop sexual harassment of some employees. Chavis was fired last August amid charges that he used NAACP money to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit. The chief rival for Gibson's job is Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers. The organization's 64-member board is slated to elect an executive director tomorrow. While the ousting of Gibson seemed certain a few weeks ago, sources tell White the "count is very close...