Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book is equally droning. The penile principle predominates; it is the staff of life and the stuff of seemingly endless repetition. Pharaohs spontaneously impose themselves on the underling, male or female, who happens to be closest. Indiscriminate rutting is a sign of power, sodomy the proof of triumph. Male-on-male copulation, in particular, becomes so predictable that the nonexplicit stretches of narrative come as moments of noncomic relief...
Adams was right. More than a century after he wrote, his letters may still be read and quoted as a memorial of manners-as well as on the construction of a personality. Adams was one of the great letter writers of the English language. Proof is now offered in a major publishing event: the first half of a six-volume edition. The new collection will include virtually all of Adams' 4,500 surviving letters; only about half, many of them prudishly censored, have ever been published before...
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...least 50 American servicemen are still stranded in Indochina. Under questioning, however, each of Gritz's "facts" seemed to dissolve into fiction. His photographs of alleged prison camps revealed nothing but Laotian terrain; his claims that he had heard of sighted prisoners were, he conceded, beyond empirical proof. Pressed for concrete evidence, the imperturbable Gritz finally replied, "I have the same evidence that might be presented to a convention of clergymen that God exists." After he stepped down, one witness after another demolished what little remained of his credibility...
Other Italian investigations promised additional proof of Bulgaria's nefarious activities. Luigi Scricciolo, 34, a former labor official arrested in February 1982 on charges of spying for Bulgaria and aiding the terrorist Red Brigades, has identified as one of his contacts Todor Aivazov, one of the other Bulgarians implicated by Agca in the papal plot. Agca has also claimed that in January 1981 he and Antonov talked about killing Polish Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, perhaps by planting a bomb in his car or hotel room. An Italian magistrate investigating the allegation has already officially warned Antonov and six others...