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Rape and Torture. Convinced that they narrowly escaped execution by leftist extremists last September, the junta leaders are determined to root out all traces of opposition. Midnight arrests still take place, and torture is, by common consent, a tool of the government's newly centralized intelligence apparatus. Its most common forms are electric shock and beatings; with women prisoners, multiple rape has been used to force confessions. "The members of this government think they are going to be murdered in their beds," explains one diplomat. "They see no reason to go easy on anyone who might have something...
...naturally turn into "savages bent on satisfying their immediate appetites." Howard Yost, a beefy failed insurance salesman, and Leo Brunner, a mousy, feverish little accountant, are ordinary indeed, but Kyle Shiveley, a psychopathic My Lai veteran with "thin lips" and "cold slate-colored eyes," not to mention his "horrendous apparatus," is hardly the guy next door...
Black culture is the socially adaptive apparatus which embodies and reflects the particular values, folkways and mores of black people. Black culture (like all others) is dualistic; it has a functional dimension and an existential dimension. The functional dimension is characterized by the power-mustering capacity of blacks in the socioeconomic sphere. The existential dimension provides a defense against the culture's adversaries and propagates self-security within the culture. The functional and existential components of black culture are based on the historical experience of blacks, but the latter emphasizes the black ritual tradition. The ritual tradition of blacks...
...went right to the park. Park is full of little soft yellow-haired baby chicks. They ain't but babies. They far from home, and you better believe it, they love them big black cats walking around before lunchtime, jutting their apparatus. They think they gonna leap off that to heaven. Maybe...
Saturday and Sunday saw citizens participating in massive riots and gatherings attacked by police forces reinforced with army units. Groups of 50 to 100 people tried to seize telecommunication facilities and attacked ministries and police stations. But the police apparatus, combined with the military strength of marines, paratroopers and 50 tanks coordinated by helicopters, slowly and bloodily imposed the chains of martial law on the population of Greece. The airports were closed, curfews were imposed, 866 Greeks were rounded up in a soccer stadium by the police, almost 2,000 people were arrested and the political leaders of the past...