Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fell asleep along with the spectators and awoke to find itself in a heated battle with the Bruins. The Crimson regained consciousness in time to snag a 3-2 victory. But if not for the inspired play of back-up goalie John Devin, Harvard would have been the sad victim of Meehan malaise...
After the guns and the machetes had finished their gruesome work last week, Haiti's election-day bloodbath claimed another victim: U.S. support for the provisional government of Lieut. General Henri Namphy. Having insisted for months that Namphy was a staunch friend of democracy, despite mounting evidence to the contrary, White House officials were suddenly scrambling for a new policy to help restore order and ensure free elections. The search quickly swelled into an international debate over how far the U.S. and other countries should go to intervene in the affairs of Haiti. At the center of the dispute...
...Hostage Bob Gravitt. "We were treated like gentlemen." As the tension mounted, however, there were signs that the inmates' fears and frustrations might turn against their captives. On Friday morning an Oakdale inmate viciously stabbed one hostage in the back of the neck. Fellow prisoners immediately delivered both the victim, who was listed in fair condition by the local hospital, and the assailant, a mentally ill detainee, to police. At week's end tempers appeared to be fraying in Atlanta as well. Ominous threats of "We'll kill them all" were heard over the inmates' walkie-talkies. One Atlanta inmate...
...render her stiff-legged for the rest of her life. She chose the rarely performed transplant. Last week Orthopedic Surgeon Richard Schmidt at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia announced that he had transplanted an entire knee -- bones, cartilage, tendons, ligaments and all -- from an accident victim into the leg of the young New Jersey woman. Schmidt predicts that Lazarchick will one day walk, climb stairs and maybe even dance a step...
...Tuesday, Brown becomes the fifth consecutive squad to visit Bright. And the icewomen are hoping that they will be their fourth consecutive victim...