Word: braunschweig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...human rights violations, including torture, "are alleged to have taken place on an unprecedented scale." Estimates of the number of political prisoners range from 25,000 to 100,000; it is widely believed most of them have been tortured by the SAVAK, secret police, which French lawyer Jean Michel Braunschweig, who investigated conditions in Iran last January, claims has 20,000 members and a network of some 180,000 paid informers. The country's repertory of tortures includes not only electric shock and beatings, but also the insertion of bottles in the rectum, hanging weights from testicles, rape...
...Discipline. To the poor countries, such investments offer not only jobs but desperately needed foreign currency earnings and a chance for local workers to acquire skills that home-owned industries cannot teach. Rollei, for example, is already bringing groups of workers from Singapore to its main plant in Braunschweig for training in camera making. Westerners have been impressed by how swiftly unskilled Asians respond to such training. George A. Needham, head of Motorola Korea Ltd., says that it takes only six weeks to teach girls in Seoul to assemble transistors-or two weeks less than the training period for girls...