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The sentence seemed to satisfy even the most vengeful spectators. Four years in a tiny cell shared with two or three other prisoners. A $7 million fine. A $1.6 million bill for unpaid federal and state taxes. And once the jail term is up, 750 hours of community service caring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice: Judgment Day For Leona | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

The war that returned to El Salvador was vengeful and bloody. In the worst slaughter of the decade, 3,500 leftist rebels battled government troops all week in the streets of San Salvador and in many of the country's 14 regions. The death toll: at least 208 troops, 676...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador The Battle for San Salvador | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

Blasphemer. Sinner. A pox on thee and on thy children's children. May you choke on a wishbone. Thou shalt be cast unto the deepest pit of the abyss. And there shall rise a foul beast, a beast of the sorrowful appellation, "Benno." And in the seventh fire of the...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: There's No Excuse to Stay in Cambridge | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

In the past two years the Philippine government has supported scores of right- wing vigilante groups in their war against the Communist guerrillas of the New People's Army. Among them are Protestants in the tiny village of Rano in the southern Philippines, most of whom belong to a paramilitary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Slaughter in The Chapel | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

Soldiers who dare to intervene have been threatened and harassed -- or merely ignored. When dozens of troops attempted to block vigilantes leaving Kiryat Arba, the settlers slipped out on foot or by back roads. Last week police arrested Hebron resident David Axelrod on charges of physically assaulting soldiers, but the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Fighting Fire with Fire | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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