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Last month, for example, 40 heavily armed men, clad in a variety of makeshift uniforms, staged a commando-style raid on two hotels run by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Buenos Aires. They herded 26 captives -24 Chileans, a Uruguayan and the Paraguayan manager of one of the hotels -into waiting cars. All 26 turned up the next day, many testifying to beatings and electrical torture in what they believed to be a military barracks. The refugees-most of whom left Chile following the overthrow of Salvador Allende-had been warned to leave the country within...
Most of the patients who entered the modest house in north-central Los Angeles were poor Mexican aliens, and most were pregnant women. They were drawn to the makeshift clinic, called the Highland Medical Center, by the low child-delivery fees charged by Osteopath Joseph Emory, 55. Since 1974, in fact, Emory has delivered more than 700 babies, usually charging between $200 and $300 per case. Despite the low fees, the clinic's services were apparently no bargain. Last week Emory was arrested and charged with the murder of ten of the more than 25 infants who, during...
...story pyramid structures that make up Olympic Village are ready to house an expected 10,500 athletes during the competition. Makeshift living modules have been set up on the ground floors to accommodate 1,300 athletes, with the rest scheduled to share the two buildings' 980 comfortably furnished apartments, ranging in size from one to six bedrooms. An 800-meter underground tunnel leads directly from the village to the stadium, both a convenience and a security measure...
...course, it won't be a surprise when they announce the names of Senior Professor John H. Finley '25 and David H. Riesman, Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, this Thursday. Nor will anyone gaze with amazement when Corporation member Albert Nickerson steps up to that podium in the makeshift Tercentary Theatre...
...shootouts that continued even after her capture in 1972. Last week Meinhof used desperation's last resort against herself. Guards at Stuttgart's Stammheim prison, where she, along with three fellow terrorists, had been confined for a year, found Meinhof hanging from her cell window, a makeshift rope of toweling around her neck...