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When Lieut. General Hafez Assad seized power in Damascus in a 1970 military coup, he locked up many members of the previous regime, who are still behind bars. Eighteen people -- including Jadid, who was the strongman of the earlier government -- have remained in prison without charge or trial since their arrests between 1970 and 1972. Though the detainees, who are held in the notoriously grim Mezze military prison near Damascus, are allowed visitors, President Assad's government does not acknowledge that they are imprisoned...
...here because a woman is battered every eighteen seconds," Professor Gail Dines-Levi of Wheelock University said, in a speech officially opening Take Back the Night, a week of events designed to protest the problem of violence directed at women...
...Eighteen years after a citywide battle created it, the Cambridge rent control board remains steeped in conflict after four months without a full complement of tenant representatives...
...That many people cannot debate. That's the bottom line," said Cyr. "Eighteen people cannot have an intelligent discussion...
...Eighteen of Cambridge's 28 city council candidates last night participated in the city's first televised question-and-answer forum completely produced and moderated by local women and women's organizations...