Word: thallium
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...Santiago. After he was tortured and killed, his body was tossed into the streets. Frei Montalva originally backed Pinochet's rule, but by the 1980s opposed it. According to the Chilean judge, three men tied to Pinochet, including a doctor, secretly injected Frei Montalva with toxic mustard gas and thallium while he was in the hospital for stomach surgery. (See Hillary Clinton's TIME 100 tribute to Chile's President Michelle Bachelet...
...shoulder. Then one of the guards injected Abu Harith's arm with something that hurt; he still has a lump there. He was driven back to Baghdad and dumped near his home. When he fled to the Kurdish-controlled north, his suspicions were confirmed: he had been given thallium, a heavy metal used in rat poison that kills slowly through internal bleeding. Kurdish officials got him to Turkey, where he received medical attention...
...dropping friendlier, 2,000-lb., laser-guided bombs on military targets. We've tried warm-and-fuzzy wartime techniques before, like when we blasted MANUEL NORIEGA's compound with loud rock music. Once, the CIA considered a plot to make Fidel Castro's hair fall out by putting thallium powder in his boots. The Army also fed unsuspecting U.S. soldiers with LSD. You don't get much warmer and fuzzier than that...
...Mick did not know, however, that Sue was the object of Graham's affection. Soon after Mick, Graham decides to use the poison on his step-mother. When she doesn't go quickly enough, Graham decides to try another poison that he'd read about in the comic books, thallium. Excited about his new discovery, Graham starts to use thallium on other members of his family, until he is caught by the police and sent to an institution for the criminally insane...
...criminally insane. Dr. Ziegler (Antony Sher) works with him for months on end, until he feels that Graham has become fit for society. Graham is finally allowed to leave the institution; but he is given a job at a photographic parts factory, where he rediscovers his old friend thallium and is tempted to use it on his co-workers...