Word: spartanism
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...atrocity stories flow into the spartan London headquarters of Amnesty International from all over the world: political prisoners beaten, shocked, drugged or maimed for the crime of criticizing their government. Says American Lawyer James Becket, who is preparing a worldwide survey of the subject for A.I.: "Rulers of the past often openly institutionalized torture to better defend their power and privilege. Their counterparts today solemnly deny it publicly while they are busily refining the technology of torture and the theory of order without...
There is also another, more comfort-conscious breed of camper who disdains any real communing with nature. These refugees from city and suburb seek not spartan solitude but gregarious luxury-at reasonable prices...
Small Bed. Life at the school is spartan. Ordinarily five cadres share a small concrete-floored room. Each person has a small bed and a towel, which hangs from a clothesline stretched across the ceiling. The only decorations are the regulations and daily schedule pasted to the wall. There is a bookcase made from wooden boxes filled with Marx, Lenin and the collected works of Mao. A small table in the middle of the room serves as the study center...
Three Crimson reporters verified Gill's tip about the CIA office. The agency maintains spartan quarters in Room 304 at the Technology Square address. No identifying insignia other than the room number were on the agency door or anywhere else in the office...
...shown far more political strength than anyone had thought he would immediately after the ceasefire. He has made only a pretense of moving toward joint political arrangements with the Communists, feeling no pressure to do so. He keeps the Viet Cong delegation isolated in their spartan compound at Tan Son Nhut, located in Saigon. He orders as many as 80 air strikes a day in Tay Ninh and Binh Long provinces north of Saigon near the Cambodian border, where the Communists are believed to have heavy equipment. Throughout South Viet Nam, Thieu's artillery thud away with out letup...