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Lenny was eager to fight in court, to perform his routines for the judges and defend them, but he found courtrooms and lawyers unsympathetic. What started out as a romantic crusade for freedom of speech soon became an ordeal that drained Lenny emotionally and financially...
Shock Treatment. His first four weeks were an ordeal of fire. To begin with, Richard Nixon's visit, the first by an American President, was a security nightmare. Israeli troops withdrew from the Golan Heights. Palestinian guerrillas carried out a series of suicide attacks on Israeli border communities. Delicate talks began with the U.S. on new arms purchases. In July Rabin had to fend off an attempt by Israeli annexationists, goaded by right-wing parties, to settle in the West Bank. That time he used persuasion, pointing out that Israel's occupation of the West Bank, in theory...
...currently showing Juggernaut and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. But for the residents of the Pacific Northwest, whose electricity and water supplies have been threatened since late September by a man calling himself J. Hawker, the plot was real and all too earnest (TIME, Nov. 4). The ordeal finally ended last week when David W. Heesch, 34, of Beaver Creek, Ore., admitted responsibility for a bizarre extortion scheme involving the bombing of eleven electrical transmission towers of the Bonneville Power Administration, a threat to set a fire in the Bull Run watershed, which provides water for the city...
...reforms stirred little controversy until Tombalbaye ordered the revival of an ancient pagan tribal custom known as Yondo, a grueling initiation rite practiced by the Sara tribal groups of southern Chad. The ordeal -Tombalbaye himself underwent it as an adolescent-is known to involve floggings, facial scarring, mock burials, drugging, and ingeniously gruesome tests of stamina, like crawling naked through a nest of termites. Tribesmen who have been raised in the bush do not always survive the ritual, which suggested that it is even more difficult for urbanized Chadians to endure. When Tombalbaye decreed that high government officials, regardless...
...shorts were pushed down. I remember saying "Oh, no!" I knew what was coming. The spring clip was placed at the base of my penis. Spasms threw my legs out from under me, causing me to fall with all my weight on my back. This ordeal continued for about an hour: questions, shocks, blows to head and body, falling to the floor, getting up to repeat the process...