Word: slain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrast to prominent speeches in the past, including his 1992 Democratic National Convention address, Kennedy mentioned his family only in passing and made no reference to his two slain brothers--President John F. Kennedy '40 and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy...
Attorney General JANET RENO canceled out of a Drug Enforcement Administration memorial service for slain agents that was held last week, angering many in the DEA, who take the event very seriously. In fact, Reno is the first Attorney General in 11 years not to attend or at least send a proxy. Reno's excuse: she had to go to a school event with Clinton. At the FBI, rank and filers have been irked by Reno's fondness for what they regard as silly p.r. events -- one senior executive there was placed on unpaid leave for publicly criticizing...
First come the corpses of men and older boys, slain trying to protect their sisters and mothers. Then come the women and girls, flushed out from their hiding places and cut down. Last are the babies, who may bear no wounds: they are tossed alive into the water, to drown on their way downstream. The bodies, or pieces of them, glide by for half an hour or so, the time it takes to wipe out a community, carry the victims to the banks and dump them in. Then the water runs clear for awhile, until men and older boys drift...
Participants in the conference discussed health, the role of women, famine, religion and technology on the continent. The conference also stopped for a moment of silence to remember those slain in Rwanda, where thousands died in fighting this weekend...
...stand in front of a floor-to-ceiling photo of Colosio and wrap himself in the shroud of the martyred hero. "We are not starting a campaign. We are continuing one. Colosio was the best man for Mexico," he said in an 18-min. speech that mentioned the slain politician's name 38 times...