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Word: slaughterer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...probability, however, Combat Arms customers need not worry. The Stockton slaughter has indeed prompted talk in state legislatures and the halls of Congress about cracking down on gun sales, and a few actual proposals. Some would ban the high-powered paramilitary weapons that, foes say, have only one use: to kill human beings. Others would institute a federally mandated waiting period, generally 15 days, before a qualified buyer could pick up his gun. (Under the bewildering mosaic of state laws now in effect, waiting periods range from 30 days in New York to zero in Virginia and Oregon, where Purdy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Other Arms Race | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...able to win a military victory, but its leaders evidently hope to make El Salvador ungovernable until they are ceded a share of the power. Yet the new surge of terror by both sides only brings more bitterness to a country that seems doomed to endless war and senseless slaughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador An Offer They Couldn't Refuse | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...Iraq have even acknowledged owning chemical arsenals. Yet in recent years, there have been claims that poison gases have been used by Libya against Chad, by Viet Nam against Kampuchean rebels and by Iran and Iraq against each other in their recently concluded war. It was Iraq's slaughter of the Kurds that prompted President Reagan to call for the Paris conference. The initiative was quickly seconded by President Francois Mitterrand of France, one of the countries that had unwittingly supplied Iraq with equipment that helps in the manufacture of chemical weapons. The results of that exchange, understates a senior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Search for a Poison Antidote | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

Todd Cameron at 126 lbs. substituted for Cole and started off the slaughter with a 12-2 decision. Beck continued his streak with a 6-1 victory...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: UNH, WPI Upset Grapplers | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...resent that. I hate Americans as much as anybody. You just don't understand. At the time, I thought we could get arms from the Americans and then use them to slaughter thousands of innocent Iraqis; it just seemed like a neat idea...

Author: By Matthew Pinsker, | Title: Iran-a-Muk | 12/6/1988 | See Source »

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