Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doorways with their backs. They looked right, left, in the air, behind themselves. Suddenly a movement, and shots from machine guns pierced the silence of the scene. For a moment, there was confusion. Then the situation became clear. The soldiers had shot someone, and they gathered round their victim in an attempt to identify him. One stepped forward, the eldest-looking, and picked up the dead man by the hair. Then he smiled at the camera and said simply, "Communist...
...watched this segment of the "CBS Evening News" with morbid fascination. But as the reality of the death that had occurred before my eyes set in. I began to feel sick and turned off the television. The image of the victim's face stayed in my head. He had been young, probably no more than 20. Now he was dead, his two decades of life gone with the pull of a trigger, his entire existence made meaningless save for the statisticians. I wondered how his parents, if they were still alive, would react. I cried. Then I got angry...
...same time, the complex technology of the nuclear age raises the danger of an automaticity that might elude rational control. For if one side should destroy the retaliatory force of its adversary, it would be in a position to impose its terms. That prospect could tempt the intended victim to undertake a "preemptive" first strike-or launch its weapons on warning. Mutual fear could turn a crisis into a catastrophe. Proponents of arms control thus saw it as their immediate objective to reduce the incentives and possibilities of surprise attack...
...million, which would seem to cover the sheik's investment. The dispute, Tannoury claimed, had resulted only from a misunderstanding between his and Pharaon's subordinates. Pharaon was not talking, and last week his lawyers said that he would not press legal charges against Tannoury. The victim seemed as worried about his reputation as his money, and with good reason. His brother Ghaith is a prominent Middle Eastern financier, and their father Rashad is a senior adviser to King Fahd of Saudi Arabia...
...victim suffered superficial lacerations have been made in the case...