Word: wantonness
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...alive, has claimed that she gave him numerous drug injections, including the fatal one. Smith, a Canadian, is in Toronto, and she has not been charged with any crime. Still, the police and district attorney in Los Angeles have reopened the case. Says Prosecutor Michael Genelin: "We have a wanton and willful act that was done, clearly overlooking the dangers involved. She might be charged with second-degree murder...
...Cooper claims to have been the teen-age lover of Joan Crawford. Some of this brings back memories of Hedy Lamarr's 1966 autobiography, Ecstasy and Me: My Life As a Woman, which wound up telling so much that the "author" denounced it as "obscene, shocking, scandalous, naughty, wanton, fleshy, sensual, lecherous, lustful and scarlet...
...Israeli was particularly surprised to hear Rabbi Meir Kahane extolling Allen Goodman after his wanton shooting in the Dome of the Rock mosque as a "hero who tried to liberate the Temple Mount from the hands the foreigners." Since 1971, the Brooklyn-born Kahane, 49, has become as familiar a figure in Israel for his extreme right-wing views as he was in New York City in the late 1960s, when he founded the Jewish Defense League. Kahane seeks to drive all Palestinians out of the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. "I want to remove the Arabs of Israel...
...country where wanton death has become common, few people speak openly about whom they might support. Some are blatantly cynical. "The one that will win is the one who is in now," smiled a worker at a sugar-refining plant outside San Salvador, adding: "You have to be with the one that is in. If you are not, you will be in the lava mountains, right?" He was referring to a notorious stretch of lava rock outside San Salvador, called El Playón, that was recently discovered to be a dumping ground for victims of the right-wing death...
...there any difference between wanton brutality and justice in the Islamic Republic of Iran last week as security forces stepped up their search for former President Banisadr and his supporters. In the wake of nationwide riots between pro-and anti-Banisadr crowds, squads of Islamic Revolutionary Guards searched the homes of Iranians suspected of harboring the leader of the country's moderates, who had been Iran's President for the past 17 months. Banisadr vanished after Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini dismissed him as chief of the armed forces three weeks ago. Since then, the government has charged Banisadr with...