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UNITA was said to be carrying out a desperate contingency plan-tearing up the Benguela rails and burying them in order to delay the M.P.L.A. from putting the railroad back in operation. That scheme would not only hamper Angola's economic recovery but also inflict more punishment on Zambia and Zaïre. Both countries have been strong UNITA supporters and depend heavily on the railroad for copper exports...
...case of Russell Baker of Gibsonville, N.C. Two years ago, as a sixth-grader, he was paddled with a wooden drawer divider for playing with a ball in a proscribed part of the schoolyard. His mother went to court to challenge the North Carolina law that permits teachers to inflict corporal punishment of a "reasonable" nature...
...shakes up a small town and sends a deep fissure straight down the middle of one farmer's property. Out of the depths crawls a strange and sinister variety of insect. These nasty buggers can start fires, attach themselves to humans and, as the police reports put it, "inflict serious damage resulting in death." How they manage to do this and where they come from are matters of the greatest interest to James Parmiter (Bradford Dillman), a slightly out-of-kilter science professor at the local college. He takes to studying the diabolical little things and unknowingly transports...
...dinner speech to the delegates of the Commonwealth Press Union in Canberra, Australia, Lee unabashedly boasted, according to the Far Eastern Economic Review, "Well, in addition to all the conventional pressures we learned from the West, we also have special inquisitional instruments, ancient modes of torture, specially graduated to inflict pain more excruciatingly than that the journalists inflict on the politicians, plus, of course, interest added for grave injury done to the public good. We have also modernized these ancient forms with the addition of electrical and electronic gadgetry, stereophonic sounds to amplify the terror, and low sound waves...
...they come out with lines like "I want to drink from the toilet and wash there." This is precisely what Rabe wants us to do--to rub our noses in all that is sordid and smelly in the way of life we've spent so much blood trying to inflict on the rest of the world...