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...CONVICTED. CHARLES GRANER, 36, U.S. Army reservist and reputed ringleader of a group of abusive guards at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison; on all five charges of assault, conspiracy, maltreat-ment of detainees, committing indecent acts, and dereliction of duty; in the first trial arising from the international scandal that broke with the release of photos showing U.S. soldiers gleefully torturing prisoners; in Fort Hood, Texas. The jury rejected the defense's claims that Graner was just following orders, as well as suggestions that he was merely engaging in "gallows humor...
...called "a bunker" in the Bekaa Valley. The first time they had seen the other hostages was last Tuesday night when they were brought to Beirut for a visit by Red Cross officials. "We were pretty frightened," admitted Robert Trautmann, Jr., one of the four. "But they didn't maltreat us, and the food was kind of O.K." After nine days they were moved to what Trautmann called "a better place, which had proper toilets...
Next morning before their long talk, Deng, the top leader, kidded the American some more. He took Nancy's hand. "I hope you'll come [alone] next time and leave the President," Deng said. "We won't maltreat you." She giggled, and Reagan chimed in, "It sounds like I'm the one being maltreated...
Having worked for the past ten years with parents who maltreat their children, I find it refreshing to hear another voice denounce the great lie, "maternal instinct" [July 28]. Unfortunately, our society has convinced too many young women that their only reality is motherhood, and that there is some mysterious instinct that will show them how to be good parents...
Said Red of his prospective opponents: "Let these hams primp their feathers and strut their plumes. I will proceed to maltreat and obliterate them. I will turn loose such terrific voltage and velocity and elliptical trajectory that when it lands on the cleft of the chin it will tear loose their medulla oblongata from the pericranium, cure them of chronic dandruff and knock out four of their impacted wisdom teeth." Whereupon Wild Red went into the ring and was promptly disqualified by the referee for refusing to break a hold when ordered. Wild Red took a deep breath and applied...