Word: connessed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American who had spent six years in Viet Nam with organizations such as the Y.M.C.A. and the Boy Scouts. A strong opponent of the war, he has been working for the World Council of Churches since 1967. Luce had detailed information from former inmates on conditions at Con Son, and what he and the Congressmen really wanted to see were the French-built "tiger cages," the maximum-security block where some 400 hard-core political prisoners, including women, were reported suffering gruesome mistreatment...
...would all urinate in a bucket, then divide it up and drink it," and so hungry they snared lizards and beetles that strayed into their cages and "ate them alive, biting off and sharing pieces." Congressional colleagues of Anderson and Hawkins were not happy about the trip to Con Son, however, and only a few lines on the prison got into the official committee report...
Hanoi's Paris negotiators seized on the accounts and, during negotiations last week, condemned the "penitentiary regime" in Con Son. The Communists did not mention that North Viet Nam has few if any political prisoners be cause most enemies are simply exterminated, as at Hue in 1968. In Geneva, the International Commission of Jurists called for an investigation, and Saigon lost little time in sending a ten-man team to the island...
...confined in 37 provincial and four national prisons, which certainly need both reforms and improved facilities. They are not likely to conclude, however, that the tiger cages are characteristic of Saigon's entire penal system or even that the Vietnamese have outdone the French. French jailers in Con Son specialized in such techniques as placing red ants in the securely fastened pantaloons of female prisoners or slashing the soles of inmates' feet, pouring alcohol in wounds and setting them aflame...
More than 60% of General Motors' new employees in recent years have come from "minority groups"?the euphemism embracing blacks, Spanish-speaking people, American Indians and Orientals. About 50% of Con Edison's new employees are blacks or Puerto Ricans. Con Ed's headquarters in Manhattan now rings with soul talk and rapid-fire Spanish. California's Bank of America has raised minority-group employment to 22% of its 35,000 U.S. payroll, double the proportion...