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...weeks later, soldiers dragged Menchu's mother away, held her captive and raped her repeatedly. After torturing her, they left her under a tree to die of her wounds. Menchu tried to live in hiding but soon had to flee the country; two of her sisters went to the mountains to join guerrilla forces there. More than 120,000 people have been killed in the 30-year rebellion against Guatemala's successive repressive governments. Security forces are blamed for as many as 50,000 deaths, mostly highland Indians, during the counterinsurgency campaigns of the 1980s...
That our president thinks our schools are a place to flee is depressing indeed, and evidence enough that a radical change is decades overdue. Clinton has promised that, if elected, he will not send tax money away to private and parochial schools, claiming that public school choice, a belief he shares with Bush, will be enough to constitute reform...
Despite assurances from Walsh's attorney, Jeremiah T. O'Sullivan, that Walsh would have "no propensity to flee" if released until his trial, the judge said he needed further evidence of the councillor's links to Cambridge before granting the bail...
Although the prosecution yesterday argued thatWalsh was attempting to flee, O'Sullivan arguedthat the councillor was simply shocked andconfused following the indictment...
Although the prosecution at tempted to arguethat Walsh could flee to Ireland if released, hevigorously denied the charge...