Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lives of at least four prominent conservative and right-wing leaders during the campaign. Among last week's targets were Héctor Julio Flores Larin, a P.C.N. representative in the Constituent Assembly, and Tito Adalberto Rosa, a campaign coordinator for the ultraconservative Salvadoran Authentic Institutional Party. Another victim of the civil war last week was Gamma/Liaison Photographer John Hoagland, 36, on assignment for Newsweek, who was killed during a clash between guerrillas and government forces about 20 miles from the capital of San Salvador...
...year-old Bedford, N.Y., woman was a victim of an increasingly common scam: telephone credit card fraud. Last week such cases seemed to grow larger and more outlandish by the day. Philip Rubin, 71, of Boca Raton, Fla., received a statement demanding $176,983. Said he: "I was more than a little surprised." Even that was topped by a bill presented to the Michigan Association of Governmental Employees for calls charged to its new, but not yet distributed, credit cards. It came...
...cases such as this, however, the degree to and manner in which the victim may be slandered, stripped of privacy, and otherwise traumatized, reveals a great deal about society's perceptions of rape...
...addition to limited safety facing women who travel alone, society seems also to deny women the sexual freedom men enjoy. This allows the defense to bring up the victim's sexual history with the presumption that if the woman consents to extramarital sex with one man in her past, she is willing to consent to it with all men who desire...
That four of the rapists were convicted--having been found guilty of raping the woman together--points to the strength of the victim's case and its ability to overcome the defense's strategy of defamation. It is a hard-won victory for the woman...