Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report how a dozen adolescents viewed a murder victim, and not one notified the police [Dec. 14]. What do you expect? We have become voyeurs of violence. On television, real bodies are shown on newscasts, and fictional victims are displayed on crime programs. The child murdered in Milpitas, Calif., is only one more body to look...
...Marble. The life of a Polish Everyman-Stalinist hero turned Stalinist victim-is examined in Andrzej Wajda's intricate, ironic study of humanity distorted by totalitarianism. The irony has become yet more bitter: Wajda, head of the Polish filmmakers' union, is now reported under arrest...
...Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee that Mobster Ralph Picardo had claimed to have received regular payoffs from Donovan in the 1960s for labor peace. Picardo had testified for the Government to help convict several Teamsters Union officials of racketeering. According to the FBI Picardo contended that Briguglio, a victim of a mob execution in 1978, had shared these payoffs. When asked about this at his Senate hearings, Donovan denied giving any bribes, called Picardo "murdering slime" and testified three times that he had never even met Briguglio. Because the FBI reported that it could not verify Picardo...
...people during his youth," says a U.S. Government official. "He feels very menaced, and he will strike out at a superpower. It is difficult for a person like that to see the results of his actions. It is all mixed up with his image of himself as a victim, someone persecuted and hounded...
Moreover, some activists do not think that Federal guidelines which only apply to Federally-funded procedures truly address the problem. Edelin, for example, takes particular exception to the mandatory 30-day waiting period between the time of consent and the operation. He says the guidelines punish the victim, not the abuser...