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Farouk made Saturday the cruelest day of all. In the morning he would order prisoners brought to the reception area. With a wave of his hand, he would signal which were to die that night. At 7 p.m. precisely, the cars parked in the courtyard would be started to drown out the screams to come. Each prisoner was brought down and told to kneel before an officer in the yard. He was asked to explain why he had been brought in and was told he was being released. Then guards would leap from the darkness, loop a thick rope round...
...night when members of SDS left a dead rat outside his friend's door. For others, the memory of those days has kept them away from Cambridge. Kenneth Glazier '69 was an anti-war moderate who expected to spend the spring of his senior year playing frisbee in the courtyard. Instead he unexpectedly found himself, as a leader of the Student-Faculty Advisory Committee, chairing the mass meeting at Memorial Church when the strike was called. Caught in the crossfire between the factions, Glazier didn't return to Harvard for ten years. Despite his trepidation, he participated in the Kennedy...
...Richard Sykes, 58, had just stepped into his silver-gray Rolls-Royce for the four-minute ride from his residence to the British embassy in The Hague. As Sykes' Dutch valet, Karel Straub, 19, closed the car door, two men suddenly emerged from the back of the courtyard. One fired a revolver through the rear side window of the limousine, hitting Sykes four times; the other gunman shot Straub twice at close range. Sykes and Straub died later in the hospital...
...them, chopped people into portions, threw hand grenades into people's shelters, rounded up people and then opened fire on them." In one ham let near Lang Son, the spokesman charged, seven children were taken from their beds and chopped into pieces, which were then thrown into a courtyard. In the Ba Xat district, he said, Peking's troops raped Vietnamese women workers before sending them to China as captives...
...there that Khomeini, in the courtyard of a theological seminary, had first attacked Iran's monarchy 16 years earlier, leading to his arrest and a long foreign exile. Now, in the same courtyard, the architect of the Iranian revolution delivered a homecoming address that was part sermon, part campaign speech. Before a crowd estimated at nearly a million, he vowed to "devote the remaining one or two years of my life" to reshaping Iran "in the image of Muhammad." This would be done, he said, by the purge of every vestige of Western culture from the land. "We will...