Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Colombia's chief prosecutor thus became the latest victim in a vicious battle between the government and a group of billionaire drug traffickers known as the Medellin cartel. Hoyos had advocated the reinstatement of a 1979 extradition treaty with the U.S. that had resulted in the deportation of 16 alleged drug traffickers before Colombia's Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional last year...
Despite the lofty goals that form the widely-heralded Arias Peace Plan, it's been obvious all along that the plan would fall victim to political bickering among the parties involved. All parties to the raging debate--Sandinista officials, contra leaders, the Reagan administration, or Congressional opponents of aid--tailored the Arias plan to fit their long-held views on contra aid, rather than taking the politically untenable position of opposing the peace plan...
...have to be realistic about what a movie is. On one level it is entertainment and on another level it's a statement. This film, however, more than any other, is going to expose the stereotypes. I mean, Bill Pullman doesn't become a zombie, he's a poison victim, and it's completely consistent with my own hypothesis about how this kind of thing could work...
Jesse Jackson, a victim of the electability debate, explains the problem: People need to move from saying "Jackson is good, but he can't win," to saying "Jackson is good, therefore he should...
...eccentrics may simply be weirdos in possession of a VIP pass, people * rich enough or powerful enough to live above convention, amoral as Greek gods. Elvis Presley could afford to pump bullets into silhouettes of humans and never count the cost. Lesser mortals, however, must find another kind of victim...