Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ISSAM SARTAWI, one of the few moderate voices left in the ranks of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was shot to death in the lobby of a Portuguese hotel last week, the victim of an extremist assassination plot. Gloating over their gruesome triumph, the conspirators, based in Damascus, told the press that "it is our pleasure to Communicate to you our success in implementing the death sentence towards a criminal and a traitor." Sartawi died because he had the guts (or perhaps the foolhardiness) to suggest that his organization recognize and come to grips with a political entity that will always...
Arafat has made a career out of sabotaging reasonable proposals. The latest victim: President Reagan's Middle East Peace initiative. For all of its shortcomings, the President's plan represented the only viable hope of continuing the process begun at Camp David nearly five years ago. It was Arafat who foiled any chance of progress last week by refusing to approve official Jordanian participation in the talks. And Jordan's King Hussein, virtually held hostage in his own land by the intimidating presence of Palestinian guerrillas, would rather not join the ranks of the martyrs--men like Sartawi and Anwar...
None of the clues have led police to a suspect. Nut is rumored to have been carrying on a stormy affair with a Lebanese woman and might have been the victim of a crime of passion. But given his intelligence connections, it seemed more likely that he was the target of a foreign operative, perhaps even a double agent...
...heat of battle or Big Dan's bar or Charlestown or the Alpha Tau Omega house, where boys were boys. But gang rape does not need to recur frequently to remind men of their own peculiar frailty. And that reminder brings terror, not the terror of the victim, to be sure, but one as benumbing in its way: that of acknowledging one's natural potential for violence and destruction. Rape need not be involved. Was not that you, so many years ago, standing on the sidelines while that other boy was bullied in the playground...
Chafin declined to identify the alleged victim. He said, however, that she remains on active duty...