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...federal judge entered the prison, hoping to arrange a truce. He returned to report that 13 hostages (a figure later proved erroneous) were already dead. By nightfall, the guards outside were uncontrollable in their fury. Prison officials pleaded with them not to attack the cell block. Instead, the guards mutinied. "Let's go, let's kill these dogs," cried a guard, and nearly 100 men charged the cellblock, bayoneting and shooting the massed prisoners. When the twelve-hour bloodbath ended, the toll stood at nine guards and 15 prisoners dead, another 25 wounded...
...child, immuring him for his own good in the highly disciplined boarding school of the 18th and 19th centuries. Writes Aries: "The solicitude of family, church, moralists and administrators deprived the child of the freedom he had hitherto enjoyed among adults. It inflicted on him the birch, the prison cell-in a word, the punishments usually reserved for convicts from the lowest strata of society. But this severity was the expression of a very different feeling from the old indifference: an obsessive love which was to dominate society from the 18th century...
...boss in Venezuela. Last week the chubby little (5 ft. 4 in.) dictator, who has been living a life of ease in Miami Beach since his overthrow in 1958, got a faint idea of how it feels to be on the inside looking out. He was behind bars in Cell No. 505 in Miami's Dade County jail, though Florida justice does not include the exercises in torture that Jiménez' prisons...
...still has the U.S. Supreme Court to appeal his case to, but is not enjoying his new American domicile. Languishing in an 8-ft. by 12-ft. cell with only an iron cot and no chair, Pérez Jiménez complained: "This is in violation of the traditional humanitarian right of political asylum. I'm treated worse than a common criminal-even the lowest of criminals are freed under bond in this country." He might find it worse at home, although Latin American governments have a tradition of not being too hard on their predecessors in office...
...Israeli case history began in 1955, when widowed Bluma Bursi, now 78, developed a swelling on her hip that grew as big as a grapefruit. Laboratory pathologists in Tel Aviv examined the lump after it was removed and declared the growth malignant-a fat-cell cancer. After an apparent recurrence, Bluma Bursi's leg was amputated in 1960. Late last year, she developed severe pain, an abdominal swelling of a type often caused by cancer, along with a suspicious lump, and coughed up blood. Morphine lost its power to ease her pain; doctors gave her only ten days...