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...said North had earlier emptied his office safe of documents while she put others into the shredding machine. Hall said when the machine jammed, she called the White House's crisis management center, and a repairman quickly fixed the shredder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hall Testifies on Document Shredding | 6/9/1987 | See Source »

...Commander's wife, "my head on her stomach, her pubic bone under the base of my skull, her thighs on either side of me." All three participants in this ritual are fully clothed. Offred knows that if a child is conceived and born healthy, not an Unbaby or a "shredder," the wife will raise it. She endures these ordeals as best she can: "One detaches oneself. One describes." And she ponders constantly the possibilities of escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Repressions of a New Day the Handmaid's Tale | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...national interest, therefore, why not radical reform? A truce. Sweep the disclosure forms into the White House shredder. Declare, à la Senator George Aiken, the Battle of Watergate won, withdraw the troops and proclaim a general amnesty. After all, we do it for draft dodgers and deserters after a war. We could even do it the way it is done in banana republics: on the President's birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Pietygate: School for Scandal | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

...City Hall to make sure Sandy didn't dump any incriminating documents in the building. The city's outgoing personnel director had, of course, already been caught earlier in the day in the midst of as he put it, "clearing out some old junk" by feeding it through a shredder--behind a locked door...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Big Mess in a Little State | 5/1/1984 | See Source »

...vicious repression, again true. Our government is quick to supply us with examples of Soviet ruthlessness and brutality. All the more reason, therefore, we should turn a fearful countenance to our own "Big Brother." Unfortunately, documented examples of CIA spying and murder are more often fed to the paper-shredder than to the media. The car-bombing of Cuban diplomat Orlando Letelier, however, is certainly attributable to the CIA during Bush's tenure. There are other examples, equally frightening, which space will not allow...

Author: By D. JOSEPH Menn, | Title: Bush Fits the Bill | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

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