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...kneel before an officer in the yard. He was asked to explain why he had been brought in and was told he was being released. Then guards would leap from the darkness, loop a thick rope round the victim's neck and slowly strangle him. The coup de gráce was a sledgehammer blow to the chest. It took about ten minutes to kill each prisoner. The bodies were piled in trucks and driven north for five hours to the Karuma Falls to be thrown to the crocodiles. Whenever a white was killed- Kisuule-Minge recalls about...
...should give the coup de grâce to the lingering idea that abstract expressionism was a "native" movement. On the contrary: it was unimaginable without its source, surrealism. Indeed, it was the last great efflorescence of romantic imagery in art. The New York painters were very selective about the modernist enterprise. They had lived through the Depression and arrived on the edge of a world war. They were not apt to believe in art-induced utopias-the rationalization of mankind through ideal form. So the Bauhaus-constructivist line meant little to them. Surrealism, however, was more congenial. To begin...
Robert is one of only three dozen carefully selected cardiac patients in the world to have been treated with the new technique since it was introduced in Switzerland by Dr. Andreas Grüntzig less than a year ago. The procedure grew out of a similar technique that has been used with some success to clear clogged leg arteries. Of the ten so-called balloon dilatations attempted on heart patients at Lenox Hill since March, seven have been successful in clearing soft, non-calcified plaque obstructions and relieving angina. (In three cases, doctors were unable to work the catheters through...
...West Germany's liberal community, the restrictive laws, including a regulation that allows government officials to deny civil service jobs to people on suspicion of radical activities, smack of McCarthyism. "It's simplistic to say there is an underlying trend toward fascism," says Gerald Grünwald, professor of criminal procedure at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn, "but there is a tendency toward an authoritarian state and a limitation of freedom." Notes Margret Möller, legal adviser to the Christian Democratic Union, whose conservative members push for even more stringent restrictions: "Nonsense, these people, the terrorists...
...search of terrorists-and surprised a gang of car thieves. At a roadblock in Hildesheim, a town 18 miles outside Hannover, police searched a car and found wigs, rubber masks and two pistols; the occupants confessed they were on their way to rob a bank. In the fashionable Grünewald section of West Berlin, a brothel operator griped about a sudden shortage of customers: "Clients don't like it when the place is crawling with cops. The girls are getting lonely...