Word: viciousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shah's U.S. inspired model. At the root of Iranian protest were the twin grievances that Iran engendered--the oppression that the Shah required, and the challenge to cultural and nationalist ideals that westernization entailed. The press ignored those social grievances of opponents to the Pahlevi regime who cited vicious police state tactics, the dramatic concentration of wealth in the Shah's Iran as well as the royal family's own record of corrupt financial transactions. Further, the validity of the cultural and religious imperatives that the Shah's opponents accused him of ignoring could not be accepted...
...YORK--Sid Vicious, the British punk rock star charged with murdering his girlfriend, died yesterday after an apparent heroin overdose, police said yesterday...
...Vicious took the drug at a Greenwich Village party celebrating his release from jail earlier this week, police spokesmen added...
...year-old Vicious, whose real name was John Simon Ritchie, was accused of killing his long-time girlfriend, Nancy Spungen...
...Vicious rose to fame in 1977 as a bass guitarist with the now-defunct Sex Pistols rock band...