Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time was preseason, in September. The place was Harvard Stadium. The chief weapon was Tom Yohe's arm. The victim was Brown...
...Cardinals' once again coming through dire circumstances is a drama without suspense, but the Twins are a thorough surprise. Over 84 fall classics, only the 1973 New York Mets lost more games along the way (81 to 78). In both instances, first at Cincinnati and now Detroit, the playoff victim was Sparky Anderson, who has penned a small couplet on upsets: "It ain't no fun when the rabbit...
...Swahili cry went up in the mountains of Central Africa: "Dian kufa!": Dian is dead. The victim of the slaying was American Anthropologist Dian Fossey, 53, author of the 1983 best seller about her work, Gorillas in the Mist. No one has ever been punished for the machete murder -- a ghastly end for a gentle soul...
...Farley Mowat, a maverick Canadian with his own obsessions about endangered wildlife (Never Cry Wolf; A Whale for the Killing) has an even greater concern for the truth; he ransacks the victim's diaries, analyzes her work and interviews some hostile associates who believe "she got what she wanted"; "She mistreated everyone around her and finally was done in." A strange figure begins to emerge from the mists. From childhood on, Mowat observes, the coltish, willful Californian was beset with resentments toward the father who deserted his family when she was six. Spiritually restless, she converted to Roman Catholicism, then...
Volel became the second murder victim in Haiti's presidential race, the first to be held since three decades of Duvalier rule ended last year. In August, Louis Eugene Athis was hacked to death by peasants who had been wrongfully informed by local police that the candidate was a Communist. Though neither victim was a front runner in a field of more than 30 candidates, some observers suspected that the murders were an attempt by old-guard Duvalierists to hold on to power...