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...cautiously worded report issued in May, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States reviewed a shower of accumulated charges against the Sandinistas. The accusations have ranged from illegal killings, disappearances and torture to indiscriminate air attacks on Miskito settlements, unlawful expropriation and cultural genocide. The commission recommended that the Sandinistas hold a conference of reconciliation with the Miskitos to improve the situation. The Nicaraguans accepted the idea in principle, but balked at calling such a meeting, the commission reported, under "prevailing circumstances...
...even up yet. There is just the first yellowing grayness in the sky, beyond the oak trees at the edge of the garden. But for Richard Nixon it is no time to be sleeping. He gets up early, as he always has. Up, up to shower, to shave, to reach for a fresh shirt and a necktie, always a necktie. Then he pads down the stairs of his 15-room, $1 million stone-and-red-wood mansion to make his own breakfast: toast and coffee. His housekeeper is not awake yet, but the Secret Service men are, ready to accompany...
...long as she rocked, he yelled at me. As soon as she stopped, he calmed down. It was like a scene with Tony Perkins in Psycho. She emitted no sound: the chair did all her talking for her. It said, "All right Norman. You can slip him into the shower...
...panoramic view of San Francisco Bay to the east. The master bedroom is equipped with remote controls for opening and closing the draperies and for raising and lowering a television housed in a lacquered cabinet. The choice of ablutions includes a Jacuzzi-equipped bathtub, redwood sauna and multijet shower, all within reach of one of the bathroom's two telephones. The Democratic front runner apparently has only one misgiving about his hotel: according to Herb Caen, he has already sent his daughter Eleanor on a scouting expedition to find a decent cheeseburger...
Accelerators, one of the most important tools in physics today, help scientists determine the structure of atoms. A beam of protons are aimed around a rim of iron of up to several miles in circumference to collide with anti-proton matter flying in the opposite direction, resulting in a shower of subatomic particles...