Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Adolf Hitler saw the great dreadnought as the key to ending Britain's naval supremacy. Even Winston Churchill conceded that the 823-ft., 42,000-ton German battleship was a "masterpiece of naval construction." Rather than emerging as the scourge of the Atlantic, however, the Bismarck fell victim to a superior British force in one of World War II's most spectacular naval engagements. Only nine days after leaving on her first combat mission, she was sunk on May 27, 1941, with all but about 115 of her 2,200-man crew aboard...
...replace Deng. He complicated the problem by purging his own chosen heir, the reform-minded party General Secretary Hu Yaobang, who was relieved of his job in 1987 for not quickly crushing student demonstrations. Hu's replacement as designated successor was Zhao, who now appears to have also fallen victim to Deng's displeasure...
...Hamm's scenario, Batman interrupts a Napier heist and allows the crook to fall into a vat of toxic waste. Jack emerges as the Joker and leads a crime wave, concocting a formula to be injected into cosmetics that twists the victim's face into the Joker's awful leer. Soon Gotham is a city of the grinning dead, and only Batman can revive it, with the help of Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger), frontline photojournalist and all-time fabulous babe...
Adolescents have always been violence prone, but there are horrendous crimes * being committed by even younger children. In Detroit last April, an eleven- year-old boy was charged with joining a 15-year-old in the rape of a two- year-old girl. The two allegedly left their victim in a garbage Dumpster. When he was only ten, a boy in San Antonio began sexually abusing three of his four younger sisters and continued until he was caught...
...treatment centers also try to elicit a sense of empathy. At Giddings, a maximum-security facility for juveniles in Texas, murderers keep a daily journal of their feelings and act out their crime, taking the roles of both their victim and surviving family members. Sexual offenders meet with groups of victims every few months. At its prisons and work camps, the California Youth Authority runs voluntary classes in which inmates study property crimes, domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, homicide and victims' rights. Some offenders do eventually express remorse. Says one Giddings boy, a middle- class 15-year-old from...