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...last week's explosions. Amal militiamen bound and blindfolded Mohieddin Saleh, 22, a Sunni Muslim they charged with trying to set off a car bomb three months earlier, then took him to a playground near the Rawdat Shahidain Cemetery. As a crowd of 1,000 looked on, Amal executioners stepped up to the prostrate Saleh and pumped seven machine-gun rounds into his face and body. The grisly execution tragically bore out the lament of Lebanese Army Brigadier General Mohammed Haj as bodies were being pulled from the rubble in Barbir. "In this deadly game," said...
On June 27, the Times quoted a classified report as saying information Howard gave the Soviets devastated U.S. intelligence operations in Moscow and led to the execution of one of the CIA's prime contacts, a Soviet engineer. CIA Director William Casey, through a spokeswoman, refused at the time to...
The court also added a grim refinement to its ten-year effort to chart new ground rules for capital punishment. Just two days after Georgia executed a retarded man convicted of murder, the Justices ruled 5 to 4 that the Constitution's Eighth Amendment ban on "cruel and unusual punishments...
The couple were among the 60-odd survivors of Beirut's once thriving European and American communities, which at their height numbered in the tens of thousands. The staunchest Western holdouts: the academic fraternity, which had made Beirut into the regional center of higher education. But the execution of three...
When the show opened on Broadway last week, many appalled theatergoers demanded, Who is Bernard Sabath and how dare he defile these golden scamps? That outrage underscores how deep a nerve the playwright is aiming for. If life has so disappointed Huck and Tom, the epitomes of hope, how can...