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Two journalists have been slain in recent weeks, as well as a beloved indigenous priest.
By sunset, there’s no one about, the only faces on the streets those of slain Hezbollah fighters looking down from posters commemorating their deaths.
The first time Duran’s name came up was two days later when, according to Baca’s petition, the slain boy’s brother told detectives he knew a guy who went by “Beto” — Humberto Duran.
News of the cavalry’s gassing and trampling of civilians — the slain including an infant born during the nationwide march of the so-called Bonus Army — would dominate the front pages and tar Hoover’s public image through the presidential campaign.
In it, he hailed the slain leader’s “martyrdom,” saying it would “only increase the strength and resolve” of Hamas.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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