Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Viet Nam, where, it estimates, more than 100,000 people have been jailed as political prisoners. Describing varieties of torture in agonizing detail, A.I. said: "There can be no doubt that [torture] is widely used in the areas controlled by the [Saigon government] not only as an instrument of intimidation but as an end in itself." The report is another step in A.I.'s newly launched campaign to "raise a public outcry throughout the world until torture becomes as unthinkable as slavery...
...wishes people would not remind him of that phase of his career. One of his antics used to be giving his small Hammond electric organ a push and then chasing it across the stage. One night he tripped over a wire and-lying helpless on the floor -watched the instrument plunge off the apron of the stage and go up in smoke...
...This instrument of wakefulness, designed by Scientist Karel Montor, was first tested on midshipmen volunteers at the U.S. Naval Academy. When their minds strayed from their assignment to thoughts about a girl friend or their next leave-bong! they were found...
...federal bureaucracy and even the Congress feel, at least for the time being, a certain release from political fear. The instrument of oppression has been dismantled. Its size and pervasiveness were sensed but could never be accurately documented until the Watergate dam broke. Now the city is being flooded with stories of an arrogant and ignorant White House cadre that amassed and abused power...
...more than six months public broadcasting has been embattled by an attempt by the Nixon Administration to gain veto power over all programs. The Administration's instrument has been the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, an independent Government board that used to be little more than a conduit for the limited federal funds devoted to public TV. But after Nixon appointees gained a majority on the board last fall, the CPB suddenly took on a new purpose. It not only withheld funds for many public-affairs programs but also demanded the power to kill privately financed programs that would...