Word: wipe
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...They contend that the government of President Apollo Milton Obote, whom Amin deposed in 1971 and who returned to power in 1980, has caused the deaths of as many as 100,000 Ugandan civilians and brought another 150,000 to the brink of starvation in a ruthless campaign to wipe out guerrillas. "We had hoped that the country would continue to make progress away from the terrible Idi Amin years," said U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights Elliott Abrams during a congressional hearing last week. "But in recent months repeated reports of large-scale civilian massacres, forced starvation...
Characters willing to wipe out anyone who gets in their way are ordinarily found in overheated fiction. Yet Joseph Goulden's riveting account of the Wilson case makes such villainy seem chillingly plausible. Goulden, a respected investigative reporter, who has written twelve books of non-fiction (The Superlawyers, Korea), suggests that Wilson's character was formed by a harsh, cold father and a childhood spent on the rough edge of poverty in Idaho. Young Wilson showed a flair for manipulating other people, without undue regard for affection or morality; this trait aided his work as an operative...
...Continental shareholders, who still hold 20% of the bank stock and stand to be major losers under the plan. Continental stock has already fallen from 25¼ to 4½ since last September. They are expected to endorse the agreement because the only alternative is bankruptcy, which would wipe out the entire value of their shares. Approval is expected in September...
...Pasadena, Calif., home base for the worldwide Church of God. They do more than just prepare for a competition, they foretell it, envision it and rehearse it, complete with sound effects. "It's like playing a whole game of chess in your mind," says Sneider, who used to wipe the brow of Chess Grandmaster Bobby Fischer before matches. Mystically, Stones says, "some things about jumping came to me recently in training sessions, things that were apparently so obvious I missed them. I don't know why they came to me after so many years. I asked Harry...
Noted one Western diplomat in Moscow: "Recent events around the country point to a resurgence of efforts to wipe out corruption." Meanwhile, the doors to Gastronom No. 1 were locked and barred and an ironically appropriate sign went up in the window. It read: CLOSED FOR REMODELING...