Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam's partition. A 22-year-old unemployed pedicab driver cremated himself half a block from the U.S. Ambassador's residence, and a young telephone operator followed suit (he left a note saying he had been rejected by his father). The charred skeleton of a fourth victim, an older man, was found near a suburban graveyard. Authorities insisted that the men acted out of personal despondency but conceded that the girl may have had pro-Communist motives-a farewell note repeated the neutralist line against "Vietnamese fighting Vietnamese...
...reasons for Sen. Goldwater's strength was that so one can capitalize on the "loss of momentum in his camp." He claimed that Richard Nixon had "shot himself in the foot" by moving from his California base of political support, and called New York Gov. Nelson Rocks-feller "a victim of his well-defined position to the left in the Republican party...
...Publicity. The victim was Colonel James K. Chenault, 46, deputy chief of the U.S. Army mission in Venezuela for the last two years. Leaving his home one morning, he was greeted by four armed hoodlums, ordered into a white 1962 Chevrolet and whisked away. Soon after, a woman called the U.S. embassy to announce: "We just want him for propaganda purposes. We will not harm him." But then, as Venezuelan police hauled in more leftists, the phone calls turned nasty. The F.A.L.N. offered Chenault as a hostage: the colonel in exchange for 70-odd leftists recently jailed by the government...
...title story, Landolfi strikes a variation on a recurrent theme-man's need to destroy the objects of his love. For some obscure reason, Landolfi makes the classic Russian novelist Gogol the victim of his fantasy, perhaps because Gogol never married and was given to inventing imaginary affairs...
...Husky goalie Gus Capizzo valiantly defended his territory, turning aside all shots. Harvard's captain Gene Kinasewich fell victim to several beautiful saves. Finally Capizzo deflected one of Kinasewich's blasts in the direction of his two defensemen without observing the Crimson's Baldy Smith lurking just behind them. Smith outfought the two Huskies and drilled the puck into the goal from two feet...