Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What was more galling than the fact that you were being wrongly accused and more irritating than the public humiliation of your arrest was the realization, as you stood all alone with your face pressed against the window, that you were just a victim of circumstance...
...image was grimly familiar: a fighter flashing across the morning sky over the azure waters of the Persian Gulf and firing an Exocet missile into a neutral ship. After a 22-day lull in the Iran-Iraq tanker war, an Iraqi pilot last week claimed another victim, the 25th of the conflict. World Knight, a 258,437-ton tanker owned by Hong Kong Shipping Magnate Sir Y.K. Pao, was bound for Kharg Island to pick up Iranian crude oil. Two British officers and four Chinese seamen were killed immediately as the Exocet demolished the ship's aft superstructure...
...that intelligence analysts give to falsehoods a country disseminates by duping foreign news media. Such campaigns usually depend on a legitimate journalist's unwitting participation. Thus it is often all but impossible, even long after the fact, for a news organization to detect that it has been the victim of disinformation. One classic instance that took months to expose: the rash of stories planted among Western journal ists that the late Soviet leader Yuri Andropov was a fan of jazz and Western fiction and a closet liberal...
...acne victim himself. Stone says he visited several dermatologists before clearing his complexion on his own. He claims his "treatment has a clinically proven 95 percent success rate," and to have "cured" himself, his brother, and his freshman roommate...
...killer was Mike Orlando, a former grade school teacher who had switched to an exciting and dangerous double vocation: he was Masselli's top bodyguard and an FBI informer. Now a protected federal witness in other cases, Orlando claims he shot Frascone on Sept. 22, 1978, after the victim was fingered for him in The Bronx by Joe ("Bugs") Bugliarelli, a local bookie. The getaway car, Orlando contends, was driven by Masselli. Both Bugliarelli and Masselli were charged last week with the murder. Orlando, the state's key witness, has been granted immunity from prosecution...