Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Never in academic history have such cuts been envisioned as MSU now proposes. At the outset of the crisis, more than 200 tenured positions were threatened with elimination. Now, even with the scaled-down proposals, 108 tenured faculty members may fall victim to fiscal austerity in 1982-83, although some observers think that only 50 tenured professors may lose their jobs...
...main opponent of these groups is a fledgling lobby called Handgun Control Inc., which was founded by former Du Pont Executive Nelson Shields III after his 23-year-old son became a victim of San Francisco's "Zebra" killings in 1974. In the wake of the murders last December of Musician John Lennon and Author-Cardiologist Michael Halberstam,* membership jumped from 90,000 to 130,000. Sacks of mail, including donations, were arriving last week at the organization's Washington headquarters in response to ads taken out after the Reagan shooting. Handgun Control...
...abroad since taking office. Weinberger had begun to sound invasion alarms the previous week after receiving intelligence reports of heightened Soviet military activity in and near Poland. During a stop-over in Britain last week, Weinberger told reporters at Cottesmore Royal Air Force Base that Poland was already a victim of "invasion by osmosis," a process he described as the "gradual filtering in of additions to the two [Soviet] divisions that have been in Poland for a long time...
...aborted coup when ETA gunmen killed two army colonels. Suárez's successor, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, felt compelled to grant the army and navy limited, border-patrolling duty in the Basque region-a first step, critics charge, toward a new cycle of violence and repression whose main victim could be democratic government in Spain...
April 10, 11:45 p.m.--Police were called to the scene of an assault and battery on Banks St. the victim had been approached by two white males asking directions, was attacked by one, and ran to the emergency phone at Peabody Terrace to summon help...