Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fast. More and more, however, that precept, designed to save lives, has gone awry. In medical centers and hospitals across the country, disorganized, underfunded and understaffed emergency services are on the critical list. In Chicago not long ago, a fire-department rescue team rushed a 19-year-old gunshot victim to a nearby hospital emergency room unfamiliar with such cases. Within hours the patient, who had been alert and in satisfactory condition, began to fail. The hospital staff, unable to respond adequately, belatedly asked the Cook County Hospital trauma unit to take the patient. On his arrival at the facility...
Elsewhere, sporadic violence punctuated the event. Mobs attacked bus drivers and taxi owners who refused to stay off the road: dozens of buses were stoned and fire bombed. One fire-bomb victim died in Natal province, where police reported eleven deaths during the three days...
...ludicrous," said her lawyer, C. Vernon Mason, "for the nation to see that the only person arrested in this case is the mother of a black rape victim. People should be outraged." First, however, they should be puzzled. When Mason delivered that line, Glenda Brawley had not been arrested. Moreover, Mason and two other radical Brawley advisers -- Attorney Alton Maddox Jr. and the Rev. Al Sharpton -- had contrived the events that turned her into a fugitive. Nothing could have made the trio happier than the spectacle of police charging into the Ebenezer Baptist Church to capture her. Sharpton...
...assorted bones and a skull discovered by posthole diggers south of Seattle last week turned out to be those of Debra Estes, a teenage runaway who had been missing since 1982. Police said she was yet another victim of the so- called Green River Killer, bringing his grisly toll to 40 young women...
...still have no promising leads to the identity of the serial murderer who attacked mostly prostitutes and runaways. Their disappearances were sometimes not reported until years after they were killed. The lag time has frustrated investigators, who have spent $13 million in pursuit of the slayer since the first victim was found along the Green River near Seattle in 1982. Police cling to one consoling fact: they have found no victims murdered after 1984. Since such killers rarely quit, police hope this one is either dead or already in prison...