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...Army defense, apparently inspired by a third-quarter field goal and a fourth-quarter TD that gave the Cadets a 17-7 lead, was particularly brutal on Allard later in the game, as the right tackle dropped him twice in the same series for a loss of 18 yards...
...decline of democracy and the aggrandizement of the military have led to increasingly frequent and brutal violations of human rights. Although martial law was technically lifted in January 1981, this development has had little real effect on the political situation in the Philippines. All of the emergency powers assumed by Marcos, including the authority to detain preventively "public order" suspects, have been collected into a National Security Code and reinstated by presidential decree...
These kinds of qualifications are put to rigorous use. The magazine constructs a brutal obstacle course through which the simplest to the most complex fact must pass. Correspondents in the field find their stories subjected to a telexed barrage of researcher questions, called check points, to review for accuracy. And before a story is published, correspondents in the field who have contributed to the story must also review it, word for word. Errors, of course, still do occur, often brought to our attention by readers; in each case the cause is traced and discussed to ensure that that mistake...
...refugee camps that contained some 40% of the 255,000 Palestinians (plus their descendants) who had escaped to the kingdom after the West Bank was captured by the Israelis. The P.L.O. openly challenged the authority of Hussein's throne. The King finally reacted in 1970 with a brutal show of force that sent P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat and his fellow guerrillas fleeing to Lebanon. Hussein's relations with Arafat and the other Arab leaders were further strained in 1974, when an Arab conference named the P.L.O. as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people...
...harshest indictment yet of the Rome government's inability to halt the epidemic of brutal criminal violence that has gripped Italy in recent years. The Archbishop of Palermo was presiding over a highly emotional memorial service for Carabinieri General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, the appointed prefect of Palermo, who had arrived in May to spearhead the government's efforts to clean up the Sicilian Mafia. The day before, Dalla Chiesa, 62, and his bride of less than two months, Emanuela Setti Carraro, 32, were slain in downtown Palermo during an ambush by presumed Mafia hitmen...