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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leftist insurgents raided the tiny hamlet of Santa Cruz Loma, 33 miles southeast of San Salvador, the capital. Among the dead were six members of the local civil defense team, as well as a woman and three small children. Three of the victims had their throats slit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador Rebel Attack | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

...Armas and then together made the slow journey to the ceme tery. Chile's banned Communist Party last week paid respects to two of its activists, who, together with a third man, had been found two days earlier in a field on the city's outskirts, their throats slit and their bodies mutilated. The funerals drew a sympathetic crowd of about 20,000 people. Unlike the previous day, when clubs and water cannons were used against demonstrators, this time police stood on the sidelines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chile: Waving the Red Flag | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...food rationing and the gentry hoarding giblets in their attache cases, Joyce can't get a decent piece of meat. Not, at least, until Betty comes to visit. A plump sow with a sweet disposition, Betty is the Chilverses' ticket to burgherhood--if only Gilbert can bring himself to slit the throat of his new companion. "It's not just pork. It's power," Joyce tells her sweet, weak husband. "Kill your friend!" Can he resist Joyce's way with the whip--especially when she is so erotically commanding in victory? "Well, Gilbert," purrs this domestic dominatrix, "I think sexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Uneasy Riders and a Pig | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

...view that the race could not move forward until it emulated the whites in every respect. Uttering lines like, "Now I've got you--one less fool for the race to be ashamed of," and "You know how much damage one ignorant Negro can do...and when we slit his throat, he asked as what we had done wrong," Waters becomes a racist as dangerous and as blatant as any Klansman...

Author: By Stuart A. Anfang, | Title: A Different Kind of Fight | 9/28/1984 | See Source »

...home. After sending his bodyguard off to buy rum, she drew Peérez into her bedroom and disarmed him. The general undoubtedly thought he was in for a special night; he was. At that moment, five of Astorga's accomplices jumped out of hiding and slit Perez's throat from ear to ear. Her mission accomplished, Astorga donned guerrilla fatigues and openly joined the revolution. She left behind a brazen message: "I want it to be known that I participated in the operation of bringing to justice the bloody henchman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nora and the Dog | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

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