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...reform yourself. Are you going to confess?'' Everybody stared at me expectantly. I said nothing. The man beckoned to a youth at the back of the mob, who came forward with a pair of shiny metal handcuffs, then asked, ''Are you going to confess?'' I answered in a calm voice, ''I've never done anything against the People's Government. I have no connection with any foreign government.'' ''Come along!'' the young man with the handcuffs said. Parked in front of the school was a black Jeep. ''Are you going...
...resorted to physical violence to silence me, hitting me or kicking my legs. They called me a ''hysterical old woman,'' but they never knew my real purpose in provoking them. Though my legs to this day bear scars inflicted by their heavy boots, I always enjoyed good humor and calm spirits after fighting with the guards. I needed human contact; even encounters with the guards were better than complete isolation...
...Richard Russell were friends of his family's, and they moved in and out of his boyhood, heroes on that far-off Washington stage that beckoned him. The legendary Congressman Carl Vinson was Nunn's great-uncle. Along with a taste for basketball and politics, Nunn absorbed dignity, calm and concern, and always, from the frequent family tribunes, a "keen sense of America...
...Still, it remains to be seen whether a more restrained but visible U.S. presence alongside Iraqi forces is enough to calm the chaos on the streets of Baghdad...
Maggie Anthony, an interior decorator from Nashville, appears surprisingly calm and confident for a U.S. mother about to watch her son be tried for murder in Nicaragua. "I feel good about it; I know he is innocent," says Anthony, referring to the Jan. 26 trial that could put her son, Eric Volz, behind bars for the next 30 years. Volz, a 24-year- old real estate agent and publisher of a tourism and fashion magazine called El Puente (The Bridge), is charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend, Doris Ivania Jimenez, a beautiful young Nicaraguan woman who was found raped...