Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enemies of the regime in the streets, they are also torturing suspected opponents behind prison walls with a ferocity unequaled even by the deposed Shah's notorious SAVAK agents. Many of the prisoners who are being tortured are merely relatives of dissidents sought by the political police. One victim, who is now in hiding in Iran, described his ordeal to TIME
...youngsters with their first lessons in free enterprise. Grade school children scampered about their neighborhoods selling the firm's garden seeds for a chance to share in the profits and win prizes like bicycles and baseball mitts. But now American Seed has gone out of business, the victim of childhood corruption. Since 1975, some 400,000 young business people have sent away for the seeds but then pocketed all the sales receipts, instead of returning part of the money to the company as payment for the seed. So far this year, American Seed has lost $600,000 through this...
Apart from the vault, the plot machinations include blunt instruments, arson and grotesque fright masks, but none of these prove either droll or scarifying. In the end, the old lady still rules her roost, but Claudette Colbert, alas, falls victim to the play. -By T.E. Kalem
...later, Fredy's mother left the hospital completely cured, but the boy was in intensive care with acute respiratory problems. In a desperate attempt to reverse the strange malady that had struck him, doctors changed his entire blood supply. On June 15, Fredy died. He was the 40th victim of a mysterious disease apparently transmitted by contaminated cooking oil that has killed 132 Spaniards and sickened another 13,000 since it was discovered five months...
...American apartment or tract house gives the occupant on whim: hot water, electric lights, air conditioning pretty often, and far more sheltered space than anyone in the world (except for the most imperial and ostentatious) has ever had the luxury of rattling around in. Even the American poor fall victim to a bizarre profligacy. Neolithic villagers periodically burned down their huts to incinerate their vermin; in the South Bronx people burn out their own apartments to obtain the welfare moving allowance, or landlords torch their buildings for the insurance: life among the ruins. Americans who feel sorry for themselves about...