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...armed men pulled up to a cemetery in San Salvador. Interrupting a funeral service, they pointed to five cemetery workers and ordered them into the truck. That night the bodies of four of the workers, clad only in underpants, were dumped at the cemetery's gate; on the chest of one of them were burned the initials of a right-wing death squad. The whereabouts of the fifth victim remains unknown...
Because no intensifying screen is used to enhance the image in a dental x-ray, dental radiographs expose the patient to about ten times the amount of radiation that a chest x-ray does...
...green uniform gleaming with nine rows of ribbons on his chest and four silver stars on each epaulet, General Wojciech Jaruzelski strode to the rostrum of Warsaw's parliamentary chamber and formally took over as Poland's new Premier. In the clipped tones of a military commander, he addressed both a plea and a stern warning to the troubled nation. "I am appealing at this moment for three months of uninterrupted work, 90 days of calm," said the general. He went on to promise that his new government would be willing to sit down with Solidarity, the independent...
...American renewal is entirely possible. But it is not inevitable. It will not be accomplished by rhetoric, chest thumping, self-hypnosis. It will take great and disciplined effort and exact a considerable price. It will also require a virtue rare in America: patience...
Bingham, 28, was shot in the chest after three men approached his car. Marion Ryan, another assistant district attorney, who was with Bingham at the time of the shooting, said Bingham shielded her with his body. Ryan suffered powder burns from the gunshot...