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...favors-including beer, peanuts and popcorn, and trips to Hanoi. Guy said that partly because "certain people talked," he was beaten by guards-"I had some teeth knocked out and I had my stomach muscles kicked loose." All eight of the men he has accused, said Guy, disrupted his command by failure to cooperate, and also by revealing what he was doing to organize the prisoners and by running their own counter-organization...
That direct challenge was too much for the Cámpora government and its allies. A Peronist group called the Central Security Command of the Justicialist Movement announced that "for every Peronist who falls, ten [Trotskyites] will fall." Other Peronists, alarmed that the ending of their 18 years in the political wilderness might be jeopardized by ERP excesses, have discussed adopting South Vietnamese anti-guerrilla tactics. "The most effective way of stopping this," said one angry Peronist, "would be to take ten of the ERPS up in a plane, throw out eight, and let the two survivors tell their friends...
...their second option, the astronauts also carried into space a canopy rigged to a makeshift A-frame. But its deployment would require a more difficult space walk from the exit in Skylab's airlock module. As a third option, the Apollo command module carried the "Spinnaker Shade," which had been the original first choice of space officials. They had second thoughts about the sail-like canopy, because they feared that the light jet plumes from the command module's thrusters might fog the still functioning solar wings on the telescope mount. As he hung out of the open...
...problems. At best, space officials expected some three or four days to elapse before the shading effect of the shield would reduce the temperatures inside Skylab to a near normal 70°. Meanwhile, the crew would have to wait out the time in the cramped confines of their command ship, making occasional forays into the stifling heat of the orbital workshop only to bring out food and perhaps scientific equipment...
...attempted a variety of styles and succeeded at them, but left his album with no context, except its lack of context. A large part of his success is due to the fact that Simon's fame has reached a point where he may indulge his creativity. He can command appearances by the Dixie Hummingbirds, move into Muscle Shoals, have his falsetto parts sung...