Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mourning the fate of a Lebanese Communist, Riadel Turk, who had supposedly been tortured to death in prison. The U.A.R. produced the prisoner for reporters, alive and in good health, called in the Soviet ambassador and demanded that the story be retracted. Instead, Moscow shifted to another supposed torture victim, Lebanese Communist Party Secretary Farajallah el Helw, who had allegedly been done in by a "savage fascist crime, like the killing of Lumumba...
...cover sodomy cases or "trials involving indecent assaults on children." But the Overseas Weekly, an English-language tabloid published in Frankfurt, West Germany, balks at little else, takes particular delight in headlining the missteps of military brass. By last week, the Overseas Weekly had claimed a two-star victim...
...revenge, retribution - an eye for an eye." he observes. "That's instinct, but is it right?" Much-touted TV Director John Frankenheimer too often insists on the audience's knowing that he is around; the stabbing, for example, is seen entirely in the reflection of the victim's "shades" (dark glasses). He persistently uses his camera to comment on the action, which may be disconcerting for actors who want the story told entirely through them, but at least he does it with authority...
...Leverett House senior rescued a drowning man from the Charles yesterday morning. William R. Cronin '61 saw the man in the water near the Weeks Bridge shortly after 9:30 a.m., and pulled him to the shore. Metropolitan District Police revived the victim...
...Must Die. Almost every ancient tribe had a bloody custom or two, but the Scythians seemed to combine them all. They not only scalped their fallen foes but also drank their blood. A man who slew an enemy in the sight of the king was allowed to keep his victim's skull as a drinking bowl. When the king pronounced the death penalty on a person, he also automatically condemned to death all of the man's male relatives. Scythian kings never died alone. The head groom, the head cupbearer, the head cook and at least one wife...