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...hard pressed for space is the government's repressive apparatus that it has turned the U.S. embassy into a detention center and execution site. Says a Western diplomat who lives close to the former embassy compound: "At night, you are shocked out of sleep by rifle shots and the cries of people being executed." Iranians living in the area also complain of the horrifying sounds. Says a housewife: "We think the Islamic Guards shoot their victims in the embassy in a way that makes them die slowly and painfully. The screams are unbearable...
...morale has dropped, discontent with the Khomeini regime has increased. So has violent opposition. Last month Massoud Rajavi, the Paris-based leader of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, the leading guerrilla organization opposed to Khomeini's theocratic rule, ordered his followers to attack Khomeini's "military-police apparatus." Since then, more than 300 Islamic Guards and government officials have died in Mujahedin attacks...
...thoughts that the Bern siege might have had political implications were laid to rest when Colonel Wysocki was finally identified by authorities. He turned out to be Florian Kruszyk, 42, a onetime member of the Polish state security apparatus who spent ten months in Austrian jails in 1968-69, after he was caught spying on Polish refugees. Thereafter, he served time for robbery. Kruszyk and his three associates, it turned out, had never belonged to Solidarity...
...some dispirited American analysts that Jerusalem might actually prefer a bloody showdown to a diplomatic settlement that would preserve and possibly enhance the P.L.O.'s political status. Asked one U.S. official: "How can Begin bear to see [P.L.O. Leader Yasser] Arafat two months from now in Cairo, his apparatus intact, Mubarak as his ally, Saudi money behind him, and ready to talk to Reagan...
...simplex is almost always transmitted by intimate contact between infected and noninfected skin surfaces. This does not necessarily mean sex. Notes Kessler: "If a mother has a cold sore, she shouldn't be kissing her children or anyone else." Once inside, herpes reproduces by taking over the protein-producing apparatus of the host cell. Gross calls it "a biological coup...