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...conditions in Iran last January, claims has 20,000 members and a network of some 180,000 paid informers. The country's repertory of tortures includes not only electric shock and beatings, but also the insertion of bottles in the rectum, hanging weights from testicles, rape, and such apparatus as a heK met that, worn over the head of the victim, magnifies his own screams...
...about subversives, terrorists, opposition groups, and to intimidate would-be dissidents. A show of brutality can be a devastatingly effective way of keeping people in line. Yet in many Communist nations this is simply not necessary: the torture chamber, anti-Communists argue, is countrywide. All-powerful, ever vigilant party apparatus, supported by huge secret police forces, make opposition almost impossible; thus torture on a grand scale is superfluous...
...Comaneci, who electrified the crowds and bollixed the computers by compiling the first perfect gymnastic scores. Performing her bold and difficult routines with consummate control, Comaneci (pronounced Com-a-netch) tallied three 10s in the team competition, two in the individual all-around contest, and two in the individual-apparatus competition-showings good enough to win her three gold medals, one silver and one bronze. Whether doing backflips on the beam or rocketing herself around the uneven bars, the deceptively frail-looking sprite (she watches her diet strictly-no junk food) was so much in her element that the audience...
They stacked us up behind the podium, with only some close-circuit apparatus as a window to the festivities. The tube was poorly placed; one well-situated fat man could wipe out 200 newspapers' visibility of the events on the floor. A pink tag, you see, only guaranteed you a ticket to wait in line for a pass to get on the floor. There were only 25 passes for all of us. A pass allowed you 20 minutes on the floor. As soon as your time was up you got back in line and waited for an hour...
...natural and moral philosophy, Witherspoon has added studies in history, geography and the French and English languages. Bringing several hundred books of his own from Scotland, he has increased the college library to some 2,000 volumes. He has also enlarged the college's stock of scientific apparatus, most notably by persuading the celebrated astronomer David Rittenhouse to sell the college his famous orrery for ?417. Ever since the orrery was installed in Nassau Hall in 1771, students have gathered to observe the movements of the planets, represented by small brass and ivory balls, as they rotate about...