Word: viciousness
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...86th person to die in 22 months of a vicious drug war that has engulfed Nuevo Laredo. The sprawling Mexican border town (pop. 160,000) has become the principal point for smuggling into the U.S. Mexican marijuana, South American cocaine and European heroin funneled through Latin America. Upwards of $1 million worth of drugs passes through Nuevo Laredo to U.S. buyers each week...
...Eucharist as triumphal sacrifice-seemed to symbolize Paul's growing conservatism as he approaches his 75th birthday, next Tuesday. As if to underline his cautionary mood, the Pope last week decried a potpourri of moral pollutants-including contraception, abortion, adultery and divorce-that have made modern man "vulgar, vicious and sad." "We are walking in mud," he declared. He also linked sexual permissiveness with drug addiction. "Behind the initiation to sensual pleasure, there loom narcotics...
...Evans called "the most heinous crime I can recall." Some tourists wondered whether the real motive for the murders might have been political or racial; all the gunmen were black, apparently, and seven of the eight victims were white. But police believed that the crime was merely a particularly vicious case of armed robbery. At week's end, the police arrested two men in the case and charged them each with eight counts of murder...
...Black September terrorists take their name from the month two years ago when Jordan's King Hussein opened his campaign to crush the Palestinian guerrillas in his country. The group is the latest and most vicious twist in the tortured search by the Palestinians for some means of revenge against Israel. At the same time, Black September, or Ailul al Aswad in Arabic, attests to the fact that ordinary guerrilla warfare against Israel, once touted as the hope of the Arabs, has been an abject failure...
...pulls the trigger, Kilvinsky tells Roy that he believes policemen are "the new centurions, holding the line against the barbarians." The film is in no way at odds with such an elaborate, self-righteous view of the constabulary. None of these centurions are on the take, none corrupted or vicious or even cynical. To be sure, Roy's wife leaves him and he hits the bottle for a while, but he, like the other cops, is portrayed as a lonely battler against iniquity, mostly unloved and generally misunderstood...