Word: victims
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...real victim ((in the drug war)) is going to be the constitutional rights of the majority of citizens," complains Harvey Gittler, executive director of Ohio's A.C.L.U. In response to the objections of civil libertarians, the Canton council is meeting this week to scale back its new ordinance. But there are indications that Americans are in a mood to fight drugs, even if that means sacrificing some constitutional guarantees. In a Washington Post-ABC News poll last week, 62% of those questioned said they would be willing to give up "a few of the freedoms we have in this country...
...next victim, according to the Hong Kong press, is likely to be Zhao's political ally Liang Xiang, governor of Hainan, China's newest and most autonomous province. Liang was summoned to Beijing in late July to appear before a panel investigating allegations of corruption on the huge island in the South China Sea. In the governor's absence, Hainan is reportedly being run by a Russian-educated vice governor with close ties to Zhao's conservative, Soviet-trained rival, Premier Li Peng. Meanwhile, the ambitious plans that Deng and Zhao envisioned for Hainan's economic development are on hold...
...battle against Colombia's drug traffickers. Barco vowed to drive the dealers out of his country after the Aug. 18 murder of Senator Luis Carlos Galan, one of Colombia's leading presidential candidates. Martinez, 34, a reputed money manager for the Medellin cocaine cartel, was the first victim of Barco's executive order reviving a U.S.-Colombia extradition treaty invalidated by the Colombian Supreme Court...
...December, a staff member was raped in the middle of the afternoon in the Science Center. Harvard police reported that the assailant gained access to an upper floor of the building and held his victim hostage without being caught...
...December, a staff member was raped in the middle of the afternoon in the Science Center. Harvard police reported that the assailant gained access to an upper floor of the building and held his victim hostage without being caught...