Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ENGAGED. Camille Dardanes, 24, grocery clerk; and Gary Dotson, 28, convicted rapist serving a 25-year term who was freed by executive clemency last May after his supposed victim, Cathleen Crowell Webb, recanted her testimony; in Country Club Hills, Ill. The couple met when Dardanes handed Dotson a rose at the start of a clemency hearing. After a wedding next spring, he hopes to support his wife as an apprentice carpenter, but may also benefit from a forthcoming book by Webb; she has agreed to turn over to Dotson her low-five- figure advance and some additional possible profits...
...Alexandria on a pleasure cruise of the Mediterranean, an Italian liner, the Achille Lauro, with 123 passengers and 315 crew aboard, was hijacked by Palestinian gunmen. Once again American passengers were singled out for especially brutal attention. One of them, Leon Klinghoffer, 69, of New York City, a stroke victim confined to a wheelchair, was shot in cold blood through the forehead and his body thrown overboard...
Shortly after the murder, the gunman with the bloodstained clothing appeared on the bridge, told Captain De Rosa what had happened and ordered him to advise the Syrian authorities in Tartus. He also said that the second victim would be "Miss Mildred," evidently referring to Mildred Hodes, but he did not follow through on that threat. For a while, some passengers and crew members thought the gunmen might also have murdered an Austrian woman, Anna Hoerangner, who was missing. Eventually it was discovered that though she had been knocked down a flight of stairs by a hijacker at the time...
...rash of suicides began Aug. 12, when a 19-year-old Indian, in jail for public drunkenness, hanged himself with socks taken from a sleeping cellmate. A 16-year-old pallbearer at his funeral became the second victim, using a pair of sweatpants to hang himself from a tree. In turn, one of that youth's mourners became the third victim. Says Fremont County Coroner Larry Lee: "It seems to be a copycat, domino kind of thing...
...became perhaps the most famous homosexual in the world, a man whose fatal illness belatedly focused public attention on the disease that killed him. If he had succumbed to a heart attack, his death would probably have occasioned only a brief notice; because he was the most celebrated known victim of AIDS, it became a significant event...