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These Sandinista abuses would be illegal in most democracies. But anti-UNO violence and direct intimidation of the opposition also ran rampant...
WORLD: With ethnic fighting rampant in the south, Moscow moves to crush the militants...
...novel, appeared in 1963 and he disappeared into his own fame. Since then, his anonymity has been guarded by an extremely loyal band of friends, editors and literary representatives. People who know about Pynchon do not talk; those who talk almost certainly do not know. Hearsay has thus run rampant. Word has it that Pynchon has spent major time in California and has endured recurrent dental problems. He is a lifelong bachelor; or, he has been married several times...
...obtain the loyalty of the 12,000-strong Panama Defense Forces, a militia created and nurtured by Noriega and bent on its own survival. As the nation's police force, the P.D.F. will be essential to maintaining order. But given the army's continuing loyalty to Noriega and the rampant corruption within the officer corps, it is a breeding ground for future plots against any civilian government...
...disturbing evidence remained of unjustified confinements and fundamental shortcomings in psychiatric practice. Most troubling were the continued use of drugs that appeared to have more punitive than therapeutic value and the domination of the Soviet psychiatric establishment by some of the very officials who ruled it when abuse was rampant...