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...bank, which had used yakuza to threaten and intimidate workers into going along with management in a labor dispute, almost went broke from mob shakedowns before it recently called on police for help. At a general stockholders' meeting of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries two years ago, a tough-looking platoon of men beat up a group of peace advocates who had bought shares in the company so that they could protest Mitsubishi's arms production. The men were known to be sokaiya, but no company official ever admitted inviting them. Indeed, it is possible that they had simply muscled...
...thermometer in the school window stood at 1° above zero, and bitter winds howled in off Lake Michigan. Bundled up in parkas and woolen face masks, a platoon of teachers stood shoulder to shoulder on the sidewalk and honked bicycle horns at anyone who pushed through their picket lines. "Scab! Scab!" and "Shame!" they shouted. "Don't go in! There aren't any children in there!" The few teachers who did venture in found the building virtually empty-and chilling; custodians honored picket lines by refusing to provide more than 55° of heat. The teachers...
Many of the veterans' experiences were more excessive then Tracey's. Sergeant Camil describes how his unit trapped villagers between two railroad bridges and slaughtered them with heavy refle barrages. Another veteran admitted that his platoon followed an order to "Shoot everything that moved" in a village, and then burn it. Interrogators were perhaps most brutal of all. They threw prisoners from helicopters to make their companions talk (one lieutenant received a medal for information discovered this way), disemboweled living prisoners and then shot them, and forced confessions by burnings and beatings...
Yale followed a typical practice schedule this week. Monday, the Elis donned sweatsuits in a non-contact session and also viewed Harvard game films. The squad worked out in pads Tuesday, running through line drills and improving passing. Wednesday's workout involved even more teamwork, as each platoon worked together as a unit...
...TIME learned that, despite Republican denials, Dwight Chapin, Deputy Assistant to the President, has himself admitted involvement in setting up a political intelligence platoon...