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...story appeared, Gandar ran a second article on prison tortures, witnessed by two warders and two ex-prisoners. Since then both prisoners have been rearrested, and one of the warders put under house arrest. The other, Gysbert Van Schalkwyk, 22, was given a three-year jail sentence fortnight ago, after pleading guilty to perjury, and explaining, in a statement read to the court by the state prosecutor, that he had lied when he said he had seen electric torture applied 15 to 20 times...
...world. Seventy-eight days earlier, Manry, a copy editor at the Cleveland "Plain Dealer, had quietly set out alone in the 131-ft. Tinker belle from Falmouth, Mass., for the other Falmouth 3,200 miles away, thinking no one would pay any attention. No one did until a fortnight ago, when it suddenly seemed possible that he was actually going to make it all the way to England. Then came the world headlines. Falmouth trawler captains gave up fishing to haul boatloads of journalists in search of the red-sailed dinghy; some reporters even clambered aboard to interview Manry...
Becoming a Quagmire. The winter skies darkened last month, when ten days of rain turned central Chile into a sodden quagmire. Dirt roads, track beds and bridges were washed away. A fortnight ago, when gale-force winds slammed through Valparaiso and Santiago into the Andes, bringing more rains and blizzards, Chileans recognized a new national disaster...
...week, Clement inaugurated a two-room schoolhouse and exchanged greetings with its 100 pupils, who screeched "Big Joe No. 1" as he strode in. A dispensary manned by Marine Corps doctors and Navy corpsmen treats 200 Vietnamese patients a day. The Sea of People. Nor has Clement neglected fun: fortnight ago he wangled a one-night stand from the 3rd Marine Division band, and Le My bounced to the swing of Cole Porter's Can-Can. The affection of the local people has paid off militarily in that most valuable of commodities: intelli gence. Women now point out known...
...addition had transferred thousands of dollars to his twin brother Ali in London. The end came when Amin rented a summer villa overlooking the Mediterranean at Alexandria. Police planted intelligence agents among his servants, closed in when Odell, who had rented a villa nearby, showed up for lunch fortnight ago. Amin was jailed, and Odell was questioned for an hour, forced to turn over what police claim was Amin's last report-20 pages of handwritten notes. Finally, he was released because of his diplomatic immunity...