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...victim, a Makerere University warden named Theresa Nanziri, was eight months pregnant when she was brought to the SRB. After a day of interrogation, claims Kisuule-Minge, she and her husband were taken down to the reception area. A Nubian private known as Simba stepped forward and plunged a knife into her stomach. As she screamed and fell back, he slashed her open while her terrified husband ran in panic for the door. He was shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Amin's Horror Chamber | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

Among other tactics, he used such Western personalities as Sammy Davis Jr. to tout Suntory on TV. Some Suntory salesmen were attacked by knife-wielding chefs outraged at the attempt to Westernize the traditional Japanese cuisine by urging diners to drink Scotch instead of sake. But today millions of homes and almost every bar and restaurant stock at least some of Suntory's 15 brands. In price and quality, they range widely. The pedestrian Torys costs $2.25 a fifth, while Suntory's best, called The Whiskey, goes for a heady $250. Most popular brand: Suntory Old, which retails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Saga off Rising Suntory | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...waiting on a powder keg. To sit here and wait for the catastrophe that's going to happen on that airplane−it's going to be a catastrophe. It almost happened here when the Congressman was nearly killed here. [A cultist had attacked Ryan with a knife.] You can't take off with people's children without expecting a violent reaction. [Some of the defectors were children whose parents had split on whether to flee or stay.] We've been so terribly betrayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hurry, My Children, Hurry | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...heavy ice but through once broken ice refrozen in crazy-quilt patches the Coast Guardsmen call "brash." Moving through brash, says Hall, "is like trying to punch yourself through a room full of marshmallows." The Mac copes differently with ice 2 ft. thick. The old cutter does not exactly knife through it. She just sort of squashes the stuff, bit by bit. As we hit a swath of virgin ice half a mile wide, out in the bay, the twin screws in the stern force the ship's nearly 2-in.-thick tempered-steel bow up over the edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Great Lakes: A Mackinaw Dance for U.S. Steel | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...third killing, in Boston on Feb. 15, was not a racial clash. Returning .Tom the movie, several members of a white DorChester gang apparently got into an argument with Marty Yakubowicz, 16. Someone yelled, "I want you!"-a line from the script-and Yakubowicz was attacked with a knife. He died six hours later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Flick of Violence | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

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