Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Voters in Iowa have established a tradition of tossing out incumbent Senators, having disposed of two of them in that fashion over the past six years. They may be set to reinforce the pattern. The victim would be conservative Republican Roger Jepsen, who is being challenged by five-term liberal Congressman Tom Harkin. Jepsen, regarded by many as pompous, was badly hurt by the revelation that seven years ago he had visited a Des Moines sex club. Harkin has lately been running ahead of Jepsen in the polls, but observers warn that it is still too early to count...
...Governors seeking reelection, the one in biggest trouble does not even find out who his challenger will be until this week, when Washington State holds its primary. Republican Governor John Spellman, seeking a second term, is a victim of the Washington Public Power Supply System fiasco, popularly called Whoops, which led to the largest default in municipal bond market history. Though many of the misjudgments that caused the default occurred years before Spellman took office, Democrats blame him for failing to exercise sufficient leadership when the regional power authority's problems came to a crisis...
...them. Acting on "motives of passion," Martinez charged, Echevarría offered a three-man contract-murder team more than $25,000 to do away with her husband. One of the deal's stipulations, the Secretary said, was that the hired team torture the victim before killing him. The trio brought along a fourth member to act as driver; he agreed to testify for the state in return for immunity from prosecution. Echevarría, who spent two nights in jail before posting a bond of $56,800, was cheered by fellow inmates on her release...
...happened to every veteran detective a hundred times. The officer is interviewing a rape or assault victim who he knows got a good hard look at the person who committed the crime. But it all happened too quickly or was too traumatic. The victim cannot quite remember...
...midget next to a Mozart monument; he is Judas to Mozart's Jesus, James Earl Ray to his Martin Luther King Jr., Bob Uecker to his Babe Ruth. Explains Shaffer: "Salieri had to give way just a bit to make room for the glory and wonder of his victim's achievement...