Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week that law expired, a victim of wrangling among the Senate, the House and President Reagan over how much more should be dedicated to the cause and who should pay the bill. During its existence, the Superfund dribbled away most of its money on a mismanaged effort that served only to reveal the almost unimaginable enormity of the task ahead. Though Congress is likely to reach an agreement by next month on a new infusion of money, anywhere from $10 billion over five years (the House proposal) to $5.3 billion (the Reagan Administration's figure), for now the once...
...report of Buckley's death was still unconfirmed at week's end, but it dashed any hopes that he and five other Americans held hostage by Shi'ite extremists might soon be released unharmed. The announcement came only five days after the U.S.S.R. for the first time fell victim to Beirut's endemic lawlessness. Terrorists abducted four Soviet diplomats from their cars in separate West Beirut incidents and later shot one of them dead. It was the first confirmed killing among the more than 30 foreigners kidnaped in Beirut for political reasons in the past 18 months. At least...
Within a week Stafford was strapped up and on his way, one of a small but growing number of prisoners, parolees and probationers who are serving their time at home. The idea has even been used most recently to quarantine an AIDS victim. An accused prostitute, she has been equipped with one of the new devices and was awaiting arraignment last week in the custody of her mother. "We needed to get her out of the jail because of real or imagined contagion," says Florida Judge Edward Garrison, who has championed use of the technology in his state...
...strange saga of espionage crossovers that has kept heads spinning in intelligence communities East and West took yet another turn last week. In this round, Washington was the victim. U.S. officials acknowledged that an ex-CIA officer had been fingered as a Soviet spy by Vitaly Yurchenko, a top- ranking official of the KGB, Moscow's intelligence organization, who defected to the West in July. The accused agent was identified as Edward Lee Howard, 33, who worked for the CIA as recently as June 1983, evidently in the agency's clandestine service. As if that were not damaging enough, officials...
Tesich manages to breath some new life into this old victim, however. The mood throughout the movie is sincerely joyous, not the usual frantic desperation of a terminal groping at a little more happiness. And a very clever twist in the plot manages to shake the viewer up considerably...