Word: falled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also witnesses to the tragedy were three American Senators-Democrats James Sasser of Tennessee and Max Baucus of Montana and Republican John Danforth of Missouri-who last week became the first U.S. officials to visit Phnom-Penh since the fall of the Lon Nol government in 1975. Cambodian officials reluctantly admitted to the Senators that ''people are going hungry...
...whack his rump. After each blow, the whipper would dance back a few steps; turning with acrobatic grace, he would twirl his cane like a drum major's baton and rush forward to strike the next blow. The victim's body writhed in agony with each fall of the cane. He cried out: "Allah Akbar!" (God is great). After four strokes, the young convict screamed out for the doctor. After six, he was given a few sips of water. After twelve, he made no sound. After the 14th, one of the military officials warned the whippers...
...believe the city should take property to build housing," he told the League of Women Voters earlier this fall. "No city or government should build housing," he added...
...number of condominium conversions in Cambridge has increased dramatically. Only the frantic legal scrambling of CCA councilors slowed down the condo boom this year, and the prospect of renewed conversions may scare many tenants to the polls. Finally, the usually ephemeral student vote could help liberal candidacies this fall. CCA candidate David Sullivan, who has campaigned dorm-to-dorm this year in his second bid for a council seat, points to the increased number of Harvard registrants as reason to believe students might finally help choose city leaders. If all of the 1500 Harvard students registered to vote turn...
...continuation of rent control. The other councilor Sullivan might draw votes from is Mary Ellen Preusser. "If he knocks someone out, it will be another CCA candidate--they all draw from the same pool of supporters," one observer predicted last week, although the possibility that the weakest conservative could fall also exists...