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...Army general who was executed during the military purges in 1937, Yakir spent his childhood and much of his adult life in prison. Before his rearrest last June, he told friends that he felt he no longer had the strength to resist torture. He is reportedly under brutal KGB pressure to denounce his associates, some of whom are suspected of being Chronicle editors. There are reports that the KGB has threatened Yakir with an extra year of imprisonment for every issue of the Chronicle that appears from now on. Moscow intellectuals worry that if Yakir succumbs to pressure, the government...
...linemates Dave Hynes and Bob McManama rank two and three in points on the team. The reason, perhaps, is that these three along with Randy Roth and Bob Goodenow, make up a brutal power play combination, which has converted on nine of 14 chances. The local line now has a total of 30 points in three games...
...more excessive then Tracey's. Sergeant Camil describes how his unit trapped villagers between two railroad bridges and slaughtered them with heavy refle barrages. Another veteran admitted that his platoon followed an order to "Shoot everything that moved" in a village, and then burn it. Interrogators were perhaps most brutal of all. They threw prisoners from helicopters to make their companions talk (one lieutenant received a medal for information discovered this way), disemboweled living prisoners and then shot them, and forced confessions by burnings and beatings...
...Pariah. Spain's brutal war had scarcely subsided in 1939 before Europe's war began. Despite his debts to Germany and Italy for their help in his victory, Franco avoided the bigger battle, and even turned aside a German request for permission to attack Gibraltar through Spain. Franco and Hitler met for nine hours one day in 1940 to discuss the question. By the end of their conversation, Hitler was unnerved by Franco's high-pitched monotone. "The man is not cut out to be a politician," the Führer complained later. "I would rather have...
What might under different circumstances have been an act of blind heroism or brutal revolution begins to look like a mere deranged impulse. The very fact that Dan's death is imminent means that he is not really putting himself on the line or taking any risk: his actions are morally hollow. The deadly chemical apparently is being tested by the Army for military use, but this point, once made, is quickly buried. (The Army curtailed "open air" testing in 1969, but did not completely eliminate it.) In Rage it is not necessarily alarming that the military conducts such...