Word: slain
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...themselves with makeshift barricades. The government ordered the arrest of the two women who head the main opposition groups -- Sheik Hasina Wazed of the Awami League and Begum Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party -- but the two remained undaunted. As it happens, Hasina is the daughter of a slain former President, and Zia is the widow of another. Vowed Hasina: "Ershad's last days have arrived. We shall not leave the streets until the dictator is removed...
Tuesday afternoon Harvard dorms were plastered with posters provocatively asking: "How many Palestinians were killed yesterday?" The posters allege 23 dead, and while there is some controversy over this figure, they are right in publicizing the fact that many Palestinians were slain by Israeli police on Monday. Unfortunately for readers of the propaganda, this generality marks the pinnacle of the posters' truthfulness...
...Rayvon was the fourth child to be killed by a stray gunshot in less than nine days and the second to perish within the safety of his own home. By the time he was buried last week, yet another child had been fatally shot and three more wounded. The slain children are called mushrooms in street lingo -- as vulnerable as plants underfoot. Their deaths have pushed New Yorkers, already reeling from a daunting inventory of urban ills, to a new depth of despair. "The job of taking back our streets requires an all-out assault on every front," said Mayor...
HEARD MELODIES ARE SWEET. King, the much delayed London musical based on the life of the slain civil rights leader, has some high-powered talent, including opera singer Simon Estes in the title role and Maya Angelou as the principal lyricist. But the show's intention to portray Martin Luther King Jr.'s human side (although not, producers insist, his womanizing) nettled Coretta Scott King, who has legal rights over the commercial use of her husband's image in the U.S. To win back her support, the script is being substantially rewritten, with greater emphasis on King's leadership...
Meanwhile, North Africans were having a rough time in France as well. There, three men of Maghrebian extraction were slain in separate attacks...