Killings prompt call for war on crime in Brazil

AP Worldstream | March 25, 2003| | Copyright

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Dateline: RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil The brutal slaying of two judges 10 days apart has outraged Brazilians and prompted calls for a federal "war" on organized crime.

The killings were the latest episodes in a recent wave of terror apparently orchestrated by drug lords and organized crime bosses that authorities have been powerless to stop.

"Our war: Another judge killed," read the headline Tuesday in the Rio de Janeiro daily O Dia. In many newspapers, the shooting replaced the Iraq war as the top story.

The nation was shocked by the gangland-style killing ...

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