Word: stang
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DIED. SISTER DOROTHY STANG, 73, American nun who spent decades fighting illegal efforts by loggers and ranchers to appropriate land in the Amazon rain forest; after being shot in the face by gunmen just days after she met with Brazil's Human Rights Secretary to report death threats against local farmers; near Anapu, Brazil. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva responded to the outcry over her death last week by creating two vast Amazonian forest preserves and sending the first of 2,000 troops to the region...