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Jailed without a trial, a dissenter describes his ordeal...
...leading mullahs, warned that the incident could result in the French embassy being "taken over"; and the French humiliated the same way that Iran had "rubbed America's nose in the dirt."* To Americans, the series of events stirred painful memories of the 444-day U.S. hostage ordeal. But to the French, the latest targets of "revolutionary" Islamic vengeance in Iran, last week's episode came as an unexpected and brutal shock. In Paris, Socialist President François Mitterrand canceled weekend plans and closeted himself for five hours with aides to discuss the crisis. Meanwhile, Foreign Ministry...
Nystagmus also causes spells of constant vomiting and dizziness. The whole experience is terrifying and no amount of advance description can begin to prepare the strikers for the ordeal. When it ends, usually right on schedule after four or five days, they are enormously cheered up and for about a week go through a physical and psychological revival...
...Ohio's construction is a seven-year ordeal of mismanagement. Certain components were made from understrength steel, and the replacement cost was nearly $1 million. The sub contains 117,000 especially important welds; 2,772 were botched. Rewelding cost $2.6 million. Perhaps the most grievous flaw was in the sub's engine. Turbine blades were a few critical microns too large; they scraped their housing and cracked. It required $3 million to put the blades right. Electric Boat insists that it was not at fault, since the turbine was built by General Electric directly for the Government. Indeed...
...owned 45% of Timerman's La Opinion, apparently died in a mysterious Mexican airplane crash in 1976. Timerman, however, indignantly points out that he was held prisoner for two years after Argentine authorities declared that there was nothing illegal in his relationship with Graiver. Timerman insists that his ordeal was based on his newspaper's espousal of human rights policies...