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...orator, Woodhull bowed to no man. "We mean treason; we mean secession..." she declared. "We are plotting revolution; we will [overthrow] this bogus Republic and plant a government of righteousness in its stead." When someone dared to ask whether she practiced her preachings of free love, she defiantly answered, "Yes! I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may." Some suffragists were embarrassed by Woodhull's flamboyance, but Stanton said, "If Victoria Woodhull must be crucified, let men drive the spikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Braving Scorn And Threats | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

...Colonel Nicolas Carranza from his post as head of the Treasury Police. Duarte's most sweeping decision so far is to split up the command of the regular army and the country's three security forces, which are considered the breeding ground of the death squads. In stead of reporting directly to Casanova, the National Guard, National Police and Treasury Police will answer to Colonel Reynaldo Lopez Nuila, the newly named vice minister of public security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: Starting a New Chapter | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

Calling management "very concerned," Director of Operations William G. Stead said that one-half of the Red Line trains have significant defects, but he denied that they were safety defects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Questions Train Safety; 'T' Denies Carmen's Charges | 4/14/1984 | See Source »

...Stead confirmed that the MBTA is having trouble with the control system from Porter Square to Harvard Square, a stretch of the Red Line that serves as a turn-around for empty cars but is not yet open to riders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Questions Train Safety; 'T' Denies Carmen's Charges | 4/14/1984 | See Source »

...couple consists of Sabina, who remains in Switzerland, and her intellectual lover Franz, Sabina, fond of infidelity, leaves Franz just as he leaves his wife for her. Franz, whose unfulfilled love for Sabina makes him more beautiful than before, attracts a student mistress whom he loves in Sabina's stead. He dies in Cambodia, on a trip for intellectuals who want to protest the treatment Cambodia has received. Confronted with muggers who demand his money, Franz chooses to fight them, remembering that Sabina admired his physical strength; he dies from the injuries they inflict. Franz is betrayed by his love...

Author: By John P. Oconnor, | Title: The Brilliant Irony of Levity | 4/13/1984 | See Source »

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