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June 15: [After Grigorenko began a hunger strike] they started to force-feed me. They put me in a straitjacket, beat me and choked me. Then they began the painful procedure by putting a clamp in my mouth to keep it open...
...spending have resulted in higher taxes and decreased purchasing power during the past five years. And although he is economically better off than his black counterpart, the white American is still struggling to maintain an adequate income in the face of rising costs and the efforts of corporations to clamp a lid on wage increases. His economic advantage over the black man does not result from any form of mutual antagonism. It results from racist hiring practices and income differentials imposed from above...
...long last, the ice hockey committee of the NCAA has decided to clamp down upon the number of foreign players, primarily Canadians, that have dominated several American college teams in the past few seasons. It is a much needed measure, but one cannot help but question the real motive behind the move...
...that the triumvirate will quietly scrap Costa's plan for a revised constitution and a civilian Congress. For the present, Lyra Tavares can be expected to pursue Costa e Silva's role as a "moderator" in fending off the Young Turk officers who want the military to clamp an even firmer grip on the country. That is a task that may grow more difficult now that the original moderator has been muted...
...week's end, as an uneasy calm settled on Brno and the rest of Czechoslovakia, the government began to clamp tighter controls on the country. To justify the crackdown, Rude Prdvo, the Communist Party's paper, said that the riots were evidence of "counterrevolutionary activity as was known in Hungary in 1956." Many Czechoslovaks feared that the statement might presage mass political arrests and trials...