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...sealed truck in which hundreds were packed for an eight-hour trip to Havana. Others had a more cruel death as they drifted in the Gulf of Mexico for weeks. Some were fortunate enough to be sent to prison for 1½ years and, after suffering the most inhuman psychological tortures, to be reunited with whatever remained of their families. Was all this caused by the lack of nerve of a soft President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 13, 1965 | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

...beginning to the frenzied, lewd murderer of the climax. His fluent dialogue was matched by a physical command of the role, as much in his comic pantomimes before an invisible blackboard as in his sinister posture just before the murder, when he crouches next to his victim like something inhuman...

Author: By Randall Conrad, | Title: La Lecon | 5/26/1965 | See Source »

Apart from making sex hideous and inhuman, the new pornographers also make it hopelessly dull. They should have learned from Sade, who used sex to assert the impossible-the totally unlimited freedom of man-and pushed the concept into insanity. Along the way Sade desperately tried to force his imagination beyond human limits by inventing inhuman horrors, but he only managed to make his compilation shatteringly dreary. Toward the end of his 120 Days of Sodom he was no longer really writing, but simply setting down long lists of neatly numbered and tersely outlined enormities-the effect being ludicrous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE NEW PORNOGRAPHY | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

Recently some Cuban and Belgian mercenaries publically admitted in a television interview that they were training in the Congo for another attempt to invade Cuba. (Unless the U.S. stops such inhuman training exercises and support of unpopular minority governments such as Tshombe's and General Khanh's, Africans will start using U.S. libraries and legations as training targets for sabotago and bon-fires...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ugandan Attacks African Policy | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

Free Men. The nations praised their own governments, or pointed proudly to their "unique geographic location," or complained about the world market for their products, or decried the spread of nuclear weapons. Israel and four Arab nations accused each other of aggression. Greece accused Turkey of "inhuman conduct" in Cyprus. Laos accused North Viet Nam of armed intervention. Thailand accused Cambodia of "connivance with certain aggressive forces," urged the U.N. to pay more attention to "the problems of regional peace." Said Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman in one of the session's calmest speeches: "We have to live with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United Nations: Who Are the Racists? | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

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