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...holding up what he called a handbook of principles based on the Geneva Convention, he said the contras have a strict code of conduct. One commander whom the contras found to have committed atrocities was "punished to a maximum punishment," he said...
...outgrow. In another subplot, the girl's parents consider divorce, but the audience cannot see the agony they profess to feel. The entire proceedings, staged by Mike Nichols, are life as viewed through Saran Wrap. Although Broadway Veteran Nichols has mislaid his gift for telling detail, he has evoked maximum slickness and verve...
...return at night, using infrared night-vision scopes, and load their booty into trucks. Says Timber Management Assistant Johnny Hodges: "We just find a lot of holes." That is easier than finding the diggers, who face a sentence of ten years and a fine of $10,000, the maximum penalty for stealing Government property. The rangers have yet to catch their first aspen thief...
This year was worse than most: informed of their lottery numbers several days before they were required to submit their housing bids, the freshman class engaged in a frezy of second-guessing in an effort to extract the maximum punch from their given number. Fake housing surveys were conducted by yardlings posing, variously, as members of The Crimson, the Independent, the Housing Office, the Freshman Dean's Office, and, amazingly, the Statistics Department. The whole thing need never have happened...
Enforcement of the "pass laws," which bar Blacks without permits from living or working in white areas, was halted yesterday, and the government began releasing prisoners jailed for pass offenses. The government said a maximum of 245 prisoners were affected by the move...