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...Harsh weather forced Radcliffe indoors for most of February and March, so Field hopes the tour will help condition the team...
...Less Harsh. Preparing for last week's testimony, Fort spent 300 hours trying to learn all he could about Patty and the case-reading the mountain of documents, talking to her relatives and friends, and even spending an hour in one of the closets where she was held. For 15 hours he talked to Patty herself...
Questioned initially by U.S. Attorney James L. Browning Jr., Fort implied that Patty's treatment was a good deal less harsh than she or the defense psychiatrists described it. He stated, for example, that the closet where she spent her first four weeks was equipped with a foam mattress, a pillow and a reading light. After her blindfold was removed, she read S.L.A. tracts and Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth, a required text for Third World revolutionaries...
Part of the reason they persist is that the more Puritanical aspects of the Islamic religion impose harsh restrictions on social life. Many people, especially the young, cling to French ways as a means of countering or protesting these restrictions...
Kanfer mentions that "some 5 million slave laborers" were "employed" by Speer and calls his Russian captors "harsh and arbitrary." For stealing a cauliflower, Speer gets one week of solitary confinement...