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Inevitably, the political situation is explosive, and the guerrillas' numbers and supporters are rapidly multiplying. Somoza lives in fear of his subjects and of the guerillas' dexterity. Tanks and barricades surround the dictator's urban ranch. When he goes out for dinner, his mess steward prepares his food beforehand lest someone attempt to poison him. Any area Somoza visits is literally placed under military siege several hours before his arrival, and he is protected by 200 bodyguards armed with Belgian automatic firearms and knives. When he makes a public speech, Somoza speaks from behind an enormous protective contraption referred...
...would be working the entire day and signed out only after he realized the reporters might be checking on him. "It could be that later he decided, 'Well, I'd better cover my ass,' so he signed out--but it seemed to us if he was signed out beforehand, he would have said so at the time," Kindleberger says...
Although RUS acted responsibly in voting the money to the gay organization, the way in which RUS reached this, and the other budget decisions, raises fundamental questions about RUS's representativeness. RUS members should have discussed the recommendations beforehand with their Radcliffe constitutents to elicit opinions on such potentially controversial issues as the lesbian funding. Discussion of this sort currently exists only on an informal, sporadic basis, which creates the potential for RUS considering issues with few differing opinions in mind. This is not entirely the organization's fault, for few Radcliffe women have taken the time to find...
...typical underwater box feat, of the Ron Fable variety--but Sommers performed the feat in winter, and a sheet of 16-in. thick ice has formed on the lake. Undaunted, Sommers cut a hole in the ice and went ahead anyway. "I just ate Cream of Wheat beforehand, and took some extra precautions," he relates. The feat caught the eyes of several skin diving magazines, who noted that it was the first time anyone has swum under ice without scuba gear. (Historians now dispute the legend that Houdini pulled the same stunt in 1906. Sommers is obviously not eager...
...notes, and you sit down over Christmas vacation, and it's overwhelming." She admits that it is difficult to write while one is still doing research, but not impossible if every book read is related, in writing, to a central "thesis" argument that the writer has written out beforehand...