Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most rape cases, I believe that the charge of kidnaping also ought to apply. No matter how temporarily, rape involves unlawful detention of the victim, even if the crime occurs in the victim's home...
...most prominent victim was Amir Abbas Hoveida, 60, Iran's Premier from 1965 to 1977. After an extended trial, he was found guilty of treason and "sowing corruption on earth." Among the other men convicted by the courts were former Foreign Minister Abbas Ali Khalatbari, several former members of the Majlis (parliament) and more than two dozen generals, including the last chief of the air force and two former heads of SAVAK, the secret police...
Until the end, Hoveida maintained that the policies he carried out for the Shah would have worked had they been given more time. "I should like to stress that if there is need for a victim," he told the court, "I am willing to be it." After his death sentence was read last week, he reportedly asked for a month's stay of execution so that he could write his memoirs. It was refused. Hoveida was shot by a firing squad using Israeli-made Uzi submachine guns...
...single brown stack-heeled shoe. Coming closer, the woman discovered Josephine's body; she had died only 300 yards away from her parents' front door. The bruised, bloodstained corpse bore distinctive wounds, convincing police that a sadistic killer known as the "Yorkshire Ripper" had claimed another victim. Declared George Oldfield, assistant chief constable of the West Yorkshire police: "Clearly, we have a homicidal maniac at large...
Police will not discuss the Ripper's trademark murder technique, because they fear that lurid revelations might inspire other killers to imitate his grisly methods. Some details, however, came out at an inquest on Jean Jordan, the Ripper's seventh victim. At that proceeding, a pathologist reported that the victim had been slashed and mutilated in a style reminiscent of the original Jack the Ripper. In 1888 a rapacious killer whose identity has never been established savagely murdered five prostitutes in London's East...