Word: slaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said, "some individuals jumped out of a hedge 15 to 20 yards ahead of us. They had what we thought were guns. It was a surprise and we opened fire. When something like this happens, you don't stop to ask questions." West learned that his group had slain four women and two old men. Their "guns" turned out to be the traditional sticks that peasants use to carry belongings...
Summoned to a westend St. Louis apartment house earlier this month, police found Mrs. Hermine Rohs, 60, and her son Willy, 23, brutally slain. Both had been stripped naked, had their hands bound and been stabbed to death. Willy's wife, Marilyn Rohs, 23, had been knifed in the neck, back and abdomen. Although her vocal cords were severed by a knife slash in her throat, Marilyn Rohs had managed to call the police. Five months pregnant, the young woman had been raped twice. Soon after the assault, the baby was born dead. Last week the mother also died...
...Lebanese territory. Two weeks ago. apparently without bothering to check with Helou or Karami, the army moved. Arguing that the fedayeen were endangering civilian communities, troops encircled two score guerrillas in the village of Majdel Silm in southern Lebanon. Before the guerrillas could retreat into neighboring Syria, 14 were slain...
...Chronicle rejected "this unfortunate piece of journalism as an imputation of guilt by association." The Examiner reprinted almost all of the mayor's lengthy denial and bannered an eight-column headline about an event of more than 50 years ago: ALIOTO'S UNCLE DEFIED MAFIA WAS SLAIN...
...Salvatore Maranzano. When several of the family bosses found out that he was plotting to kill them, they worked up an assassination scheme. Five months after he took power, Il Capo di Tutti Capi was murdered. The same day, Sept. 10, 1931, 40 leaders allied with him were slain across the country...