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...some hostages seem to have been singled out for especially harsh treatment. John D. McKeel, 27, a Marine guard, was told early in his confinement that his mother had died, and that he would not be released to go to her funeral unless he gave information to his guards-just what they sought from him he did not specify. He did not discover that his mother Wynona was actually alive until he phoned home last week. He told her that he had refused to tell the guards anything but his name, rank and serial number. As a result...
...death by hanging for sedition and attempting to overthrow the government. But 60 minutes later, to some surprise and considerable relief, the South Korean Cabinet, at the direction of President Chun Doo Hwan, 50, commuted Kim's sentence to life imprisonment in the interest of "national reconciliation." Harsh as that was, it was far less than a death penalty that would have carried serious international repercussions...
WITH THE SELECTION of Jeanne Kirkpatrick as his choice for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, president-elect Ronald Reagan has realized the worst fears about his foreign policy towards the Third World and especially towards Latin American countries. Kirkpatrick, a Georgetown professor and harsh critic of President Carter's human rights policy, perhaps best encapsulated her attitudes when, in December, she said she strongly believes the U.S. should, in the name of stability, support "mildly repressive" governments. Revolutionaries, Kirkpatrick contends, only appeal to liberals because their rhetoric masks their real intentions: furthering Soviet ambitions for global domination and imposing...
...most part, Schwartz contends, the committee conducted its proceedings in "a very legal way." To those students who argue that these "legal" methods were less than judicially fair at times and the committee's penalties excessively harsh, Schwartz observes that "the committee at the same time was being attacked for being so soft in certain quarters." Many administrators and faculty during this first tense year "felt the whole University was being threatened with destruction," Schwartz says...
...voters of Uruguay, who have lived for seven years under a harsh, military-backed regime, trooped obediently to the polls last week in a national plebiscite. The object of the exercise: approval or rejection of a new 238-article constitution giving the military an even more pervasive role in the future political life of the country. Under almost any other authoritarian regime in the world, the outcome would have been foregone. Not in Uruguay. To the acute embarrassment of the military, the constitution was resoundingly defeated, with 54% voting...