Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lebanon and Syria. I believe that what happened in Lebanon threatens Syria, which is composed of elements similar to those of Lebanon. Jordan is anxious not to fall victim to the process of fragmentation in the region. Our independence, our Arab character and identity as a people are at stake...
...speech was testimony, not dialogue, and the courtroom melodrama could claim the legitimacy of a news story. The account came from one of six Portuguese immigrants accused of the gang rape of a young woman on a barroom pool table in New Bedford, Mass. Two weeks before, the alleged victim had described equally vividly a far different version of the same scene, in which she was forced into intercourse, but fought off oral sex, while the bartender and some patrons looked on but did not summon the police...
...allowed, with varying restrictions, in some 38 states. Debate continues about whether the public's right to know outweighs the intrusive and potentially disruptive impact of television coverage on a court proceeding and its principal participants. The problem may be particularly delicate in rape cases, because the victim is often stigmatized, both by the assault and by defense strategies that portray her as a ready partner. Says Stephanie Roth of New York Women Against Rape: "Going through a rape trial can be like going through a rape again.'' Many attorneys and social activists claim that the intense...
...recognition of such arguments, a number of newspapers and TV and radio stations decided, before the trial began, not to carry the name of the alleged victim. But Rhode Island's Colony Communications, which is supplying video coverage to CNN and to New Bedford-area cable channels, aired the name because, an executive said, the company lacked the technical ability to bleep it out when it arose in testimony. As a result, the Fall River Herald-News and the Providence Journal and Bulletin in Rhode Island published it. Said the Providence papers' Executive Editor, Charles Hauser: "Once...
...been millions of words-too many by far," he concludes, "many that I know I would regret if I steeled myself to review them all again. And for me, as for most twentieth-century Americans, work has been mainly a series of interludes-son, husband, father, traveler, wage earner, victim, victimizer...