Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...barely hints at the horror of one of the world's most savage forms of execution. This is how it happens. In the townships of South Africa, militant black youths first capture a victim. Next they chop off his hands or tie them behind his back with barbed wire. Finally they place a gasoline-filled tire over the terrified victim's head and shoulders and set it ablaze. The melting rubber clings like tar to the victim's flesh, while flames and searing fumes enshroud him. Within minutes the execution is over. By the time the police arrive, the charred...
...CROWING IN Moscow elicited something more than the usual blithe dismissal of Soviet propaganda displays. Instead, some people on this side of the barbed-wire actually paused to consider the anomaly of refugees from totalitarianism repudiating life in America. Though they were not the first Soviet emigres to do an about face, the most recent repatriates made up the largest and most highly publicized group to do so. And even though the 50 represented a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of people who have left Russia in the last two decades, the existence of even a small number...
...capsule's contents reflect the theme of freedom and liberty in 1986. ABC will donate tapes of this year's Liberty Centennial celebrations. The Associated Press will compile the year's wire service stories dealing with the motif; United Press International will develop a chronology of 1986 events that reflects the concept of freedom. There will be taped greetings from President Reagan and U.S. Interior Secretary Donald Hodel, essays by children from 50 states and memorabilia from the 1986 Liberty extravaganzas...
...Fund is usually a discreet affair, conducted almost exclusively behind closed doors. But the competition to replace Frenchman Jacques de Larosiere, who announced his coming departure in September, has generated -- in financial circles at least -- all the excitement of a tight horse race. Last week a winner hit the wire: Bank of France Governor Michel Camdessus, 53. When he takes over next month as chief of the IMF, which provides short-term emergency loans to troubled nations, Camdessus will become perhaps the second most powerful moneyman in the world, after Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker...
...cars and sometimes on rafts along the great rivers flowing to the Arctic Ocean. The healthy adults were put to work in the mines or at timbering. The old, the sick and youngsters under 14 built shelters of wood and mud on patches of Arctic wasteland encircled with barbed wire. Some 6.5 million people died, more than half of them children...