Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...either private companies or the U.S. Government to intervene in a free election is, as Church said, "very improper." Beyond the question of propriety, the troubling aspect of the ITT affair is that it will fan suspicions in foreign countries that multinational corporations commonly use their financial powers to influence foreign political affairs directly. To date, there is little public evidence that other companies have in recent years tried to meddle as ITT sought...
...favorite props of the North Vietnamese captors were lengths of rope, iron manacles that could be screwed down to the bone and fan belts for administering beatings. Prisoners claimed that they were tied up for interminable periods into positions that yogis could not assume. Ropes tied to a man's ankles, wrists and neck were tightened until he was bent over backward in a doughnut shape. Men were also bent forward into a position of a baby sucking its big toe. The ropes cut off circulation, and in several cases paralyzed limbs for months, even years...
...tightened so much that blood came through the pores. Hands and feet often swelled to unimaginable proportions and turned black. Jaws, noses, ribs, teeth and limbs, the prisoners charged, were deliberately broken and left unset. The sick and wounded were left in their own excrement for days on end. Fan belts or lengths of rubber turned buttocks of beaten prisoners into raw flesh. Sergeant Don MacPhail said that he was hung from a tree over three fresh graves and beaten with sticks. He was told that he would be in the fourth grave...
...torture continued for days. Fidel would beat Kasler across the buttocks with a large white truck fan belt until "he tore my rear end to shreds." At one point Fidel said, "You are going to see a delegation if we have to carry you on a stretcher." For one three-day period, Kasler was beaten with the fan belt every hour from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., and kept awake at night...
...mineral deposits, but major problems remain. The average annual per capita income is still less than $100, and more than 40% of the population is illiterate. Unemployment continues to climb, and the net annual population increase of 2.8% is no help. In an attempt to curb it, teams fan out over the paddyfields preaching family planning...