Word: membered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is no longer any dispute that SAVAK practiced systematic torture. Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a member of Khomeini's Revolutionary Council, described to TIME'S Raji Samghabadi how SAVAK agents in 1964 lashed the soles of his feet with electric cable: "The flesh was torn apart, and the bones jutted out. There were multiple fractures." The agents, he says, also held a knife to his throat for hours, making small nicks and telling him to guess "when the blade might go all the way down and sever my head." Amnesty International in the 1970s described other methods...
...victims simply cannot be compared to the millions killed by Hitler and Stalin; nor can the tenor of his regime be likened to that of Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Soviet Union. Even among contemporary despots, the Shah is not the worst. One prominent member of the International Commission of Jurists classifies the Shah as in a "second league" of tyrants, below Uganda's Idi Amin, Cambodia's Pol Pot and Central African Emperor Jean Bokassa I. One Iranian expert notes that the Shah often exiled enemies rather than killing them. He adds: "Khomeini himself...
Supporting Davis's proposal, Barbara Solomon, senior lecturer in History and Literature and a council member, said yesterday she "was never convinced" that passing an Advanced Placement exam in the humanities or social sciences could substitute for a corresponding Harvard course, regardless of the score earned...
Owens, of Winetka, Ill., is associate editor of the Harvard Political Review, a member of the Signet Society. She played club soccer as a freshman. She concentrates in American History and Literature and has worked at Phillips Brooks House...
...group analyzed DNA synthesized by researchers in the Netherlands. However, it has not determined if the new form exists in nature. "Much work remains to be done on this project," Gary J. Quigley, a member of the MIT group, said yesterday...