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...storehouses in Addis Ababa, Kembolcha and Nazaret were virtually empty. Said Taffari Wossen, chief spokesman for Ethiopia's Relief and Rehabilitation Committee: "We are getting more sympathy than assistance. In terms of actual need, we are still very far from our targets." Warned a Western relief official: "The cupboard is bare...
...Marxist guerrillas of El Salvador. The insurgents deny the accusation, claiming that they capture most of their arms from U.S.-supported Salvadoran troops. Last week, in a bid to prove its case as Congress considered a request for additional military aid to El Salvador, the Administration opened its intelligence cupboard wider than ever before...
...this without receiving a degree in psychoanalysis, but he had graduated from a training institute, and delivered several papers at conventions. He became the heir-apparent to the director-ship of the Freud Archives, even gained permission to go through a cupboard of previously unrevealed Freud letters. At the Archives, Masson unearthed what he believed was significant new documentation that Freud abandoned his seduction theory for intellectually dishonest reasons. Masson delivered a speech on his beliefs, and like a prodigal son was tossed out of the Archives and Eissler's life for attacking the master...
...gold and silver to the customers," but he admitted that he had no firm tally of his company's debts. When William Leonard, a court-appointed attorney, opened the vault at IGBE's Fort Lauderdale headquarters he found that "like Old Mother Hubbard's cupboard, it was bare." Or almost bare. Leonard did find a small adding machine and a few wooden blocks painted to look like gold bars...
...defendant replied that he was "obeying a little voice in my head. Security was so bad I wanted to show as an example that I could get in." As for the alleged theft, he said, "I was thirsty and could not find a tap. [The wine] was in a cupboard. I was just waiting to be captured." As courtroom explanations go, they were certainly imaginative. But they were enough to convince a jury at London's Old Bailey that Michael Fagan, 34, had not acted criminally. After deliberating for only 14 minutes, the jury found the unemployed laborer...