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...adviser to the Anglican Bishop of Bristol. In 1968 he headed for Uganda to become an adviser to the local archbishop. Even then his life was infected with a dash of danger. In 1971 he and his wife Frances, who have three daughters and a son, were held at gunpoint for some hours during a mass expulsion of foreigners following Idi Amin Dada's takeover...
Army units have rounded up an estimated 100,000 men in Santiago's vast slums and taken them at gunpoint to nearby assembly points to have their identities checked. Detainees are released after their hands have been stamped with black ink to indicate that they have been inspected. Only about 100 have been arrested and jailed. Says Valdes: "It is barbarous, exactly the same as what went on in the Warsaw Ghetto...
...four rifles. Waving bizarre political tracts (one was headlined ZERO-INFINITY), Young announced in the school office, "This is a revolution." Doris, telling some teachers that there was to be a surprise birthday party, lured 167 schoolchildren and adults into a first-grade classroom, where they stood at gunpoint in frightened silence. Declaring that he had enough explosives to "wipe out Cokeville," Young told Principal Max Excell that he wanted a whopping ransom of $2 million a hostage, as well as a talk with President Reagan. "Why Cokeville?" asked Excell. Replied Young: "Because it's a nice little Mormon town...
...professor at American University of Beirut, who has lived in Lebanon for 40 years: "We stayed until there was no longer any hope." Those who remain behind bemoan the university's deteriorating academic standards and the lawlessness of campus life. "We've had students demand better grades at gunpoint," laments a Lebanese professor...
...report is based on eyewitness accounts of relief workers and surveys conducted in Sudan among Ethiopian refugees by Cultural Survival, a U.S. human rights group. It alleges that many peasants were taken against their will, sometimes at gunpoint, and trucked south, only to be left on uncleared land with inadequate rations. M. Peter McPherson, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, has denounced resettlement as a "vast human tragedy" and calls the report a "very positive development." But an Ethiopian government official labeled French doctors' charges "preposterous...