Word: slain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slain agent was a seasoned veteran of service in Russia, Turkey, Ethiopia and Sudan. "Freddie was an enormously charming guy. You liked him, , you liked to tell him secrets," said a diplomat who served with Woodruff in Africa. "He was an aggressive, old-fashioned, street-smart spook. When everything was falling apart, you could ask him to get the hell out there and find out what's going...
...agent was allegedly told by the plotters that killing the pastor of the A.M.E. church would "stir the masses," that "half-assed revolutions" don't work, and that killing black leaders was the way to start the race war. One skinhead said that "an $ average dumb nigger" should be slain so the group could bond with blood. The violent rhetoric seemed at odds with some of the members' backgrounds. Fisher, the skinhead leader, is the son of a grade-school teacher and a computer- science instructor; neighbors say many of his friends are nonwhite. But the relative of another suspect...
...Commander in Chief who had never led his troops into battle, Bill Clinton anguished not at all over ordering the raids. Washington had been annoyed at Aidid's resurgence for some time. Less than 24 hours after the U.N. peacekeepers were slain, Clinton gave the Pentagon his go-ahead. The White House took its first military action in stride, as if to create an aura of quiet competence around the President. Clinton did not personally address the issue until his Saturday radio talk, when he declared that U.S. and coalition troops had "successfully attacked" Aidid's positions and struck...
...Lamb of God (which Koresh now calls himself) unlooses the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: conquest, war, famine and death. Arnold thinks Koresh relates them to events in his leadership of the Davidian cult. The opening of the fifth seal discloses "the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God," which to Koresh might seem an obvious reference to the Feb. 28 gun battle. The breaking of the sixth seal produces an earthquake, and Koresh has predicted one soon in the Waco area. Behind the seventh seal are seven angels who blow successively on trumpets, signaling...
WHEN MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr. was killed 25 years ago this week, black Washington exploded. Angry mobs surged through the streets exacting a terrible revenge for the slain civil rights leader. Before federal troops quelled the violence, 11 people died, hundreds of businesses were destroyed and countless thousands of lives were torn apart...