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...April 1984, Pi Eta club officers circulated a newsletter which referred to women as pigs. It discussed the "amazing pounding of private parts some poor suspecting fat load is going to take this Saturday by your huge and erect penis." The sheet described female party guests as "a bevy of slobbering bovines fresh for the slaughter" and promised "an opportunity to slice into one of these meaty but grateful heffers [sic] with ease...
...schools in Ohio and New York as well as California, he has taught without any textbooks at all. Those that he absolutely needs, he pays for himself. "Homework is pretty well out of the question," he says. At one point he had an annual paper budget of 2,000 sheets for five classes of 28 children each. So if each student used one sheet a day, he would run out in three weeks. "If I want to give a test, I buy the paper myself." Most years he spends several hundred dollars of his own money on basic supplies...
Iraqi units are entrenched in their now traditional triangular forts, formed of packed sand, with an infantry company equipped with heavy machine guns holding each corner. Soldiers are protected by portable concrete shelters or dugouts of sheet metal and sand. Tanks are hull deep in the ground and bolstered with sandbags. Artillery pieces are deployed at the apex of each ! triangle, pre-aimed at "killing zones" created by flaming trenches and minefields. Defensive deployments like these are immobile; the officers learned in their war with Iran to hunker down, absorb attacks and fire back with artillery, often loaded with chemical...
...Tommy Darnell, 29, was a skilled sheet-metal cutter at General Dynamics until he was laid off last month along with 3,500 other Fort Worth workers. Says he: "I guess I might have to write off 10 years of experience...
Afraid the Americans might not help him, Awad frantically insisted that he was telling the truth. He drew a diagram of the suitcase, showing where thin sheets of plastic explosive were sewn into the lining and how the batteries and detonator were embedded in a sheet of plastic along the bottom edge of the suitcase. The diplomat reluctantly called the Swiss police again and talked them into sending the bomb squad back to Awad's hotel. Several tense hours ) passed. Finally, a call came through: the Swiss had found the bomb...