Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like the father of modern India, Mahatma Gandhi, who was not related to her, Indira Gandhi died in a tranquil New Delhi garden, a victim of her country's turbulent politics. Mahatma Gandhi was killed in 1948 by a Hindu fanatic enraged by concessions made to the Muslims and by the partition of India and Pakistan. Mrs. Gandhi's murderers were Sikhs, whose religious community of 15 million represents only about 2% of India's population but holds a disproportionately important place in the country's life. For the past two years, a Sikh rebellion has been smoldering in Punjab...
...gang of youths assaulted an unnamed undergraduate last Thursday night near the Anderson Bridge, police said. The victim was punched and hit on the back with a stick, and was taken to University Health Services for treatment of a head laceration and a concussion...
...their triangular symbol). Police Chief Jon Elder of Monterey Park, a Los Angeles suburb, testified that his city had had eight shootings in just the past few months among Asian gangs seeking "power and supremacy" in the town, which has a population that is 35% Asian. He described one victim of a ritual Triad punishment as having been slashed 200 times with a saber, deliberately left maimed but alive. A commission investigator claimed that a prosperous businessman in Manhattan's Chinatown, Edward Tse Chiu Chan, heads Triad criminal activities in New York. Chan has been subpoenaed to be interviewed...
...scandal that has seriously shaken the two-year-old Kohl government. Barzel was named as the recipient of 1.7 million deutsche marks (now worth more than $700,000) from Friedrich Flick Industrieverwaltung, West Germany's largest private industrial firm. The Bundestag leader thus be came the latest victim in the Flick affair, an influence-peddling scandal that has claimed 16 public figures in two years...
...public affairs program. Seith brought along his wife, who he felt had been insulted by the Percy campaign, and a heated and dramatic confrontation followed. In fact, Percy became so hot and flustered that, as he left the studio via a narrow hallway crowded by reporters, he collapsed--the victim of an unwelcome fainting spell. So much for the Illinois Advantage, as Percy calls himself in his current campaign against Democratic Congressman Paul Simon...