Word: threw
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...judge threw out the civil rights, defamation and invasion of privacy charges in his ruling, but upheld the case and the other three charges...
...They were unconscious. we stripped them, and when the flight commander gave the order, we opened the door and threw them out, naked, one by one. That is the story, and nobody can deny it." With these words, former Argentine navy Captain Adolfo Francisco Scilingo, 48, spilled one of the dirtiest secrets of the "dirty war" that raged in his country from the mid-1970s through the early '80s. Human-rights workers and relatives of at least 9,000 Argentines who "disappeared" under military rule have long contended that the missing were systematically murdered by troops acting on orders from...
...judge in Johannesburg today threw out search warrants that were used bySouth African police to raid Winnie Mandela's Soweto homethree weeks ago. Police were investigating whether the deputy Cabinet minister and estranged wife of President Nelson Mandela took bribes to secure government contracts for a firm that she wanted to take over. The judge ruled that a local magistrate improperly acted on a police request for the warrants. He ordered police to return documents seized in the raid. But they still have papers seized from the firm. "Police said this makes no difference to the probe that's going...
...also sought out ordinary Algerians. When she phoned the mother of a friend who had fled the country, the woman begged her not to visit. "She was afraid I'd get killed, and it would be her fault," says Marlowe. "But when I showed up at her apartment, she threw her arms around me and cried...
...quite. They--or, rather, producer Arnold Kopelson--read it in a New Yorker article in 1992. "Crisis in the Hot Zone," Richard Preston's true story about the near escape of the Ebola virus from a Virginia lab, threw Hollywood into a bidding frenzy, and Kopelson was one of the pursuers. When Preston sold his rights to 20th Century Fox, Kopelson decided to make a fictional plague film, Outbreak. It scurried into production while the Hot Zone project dithered in development and then aborted. So if you want to see a virus epic, Outbreak...