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...song--'Eight-by-ten glossies with circles and arrows'?" she asks. "Well, that is exactly what is was like." In the photographs she saw, almost everyone was identified by name. But only a few faces were circled, and these people, she recalls, were the ones who eventually received the stiffest penalties. Wheeler also remembers asking the committee why, if it had identified almost 400 protesters, it had only disciplined 50. No response...
Among convicted officials, Guan is one of the very few to suffer the extreme penalty of execution. Most of the others have been dismissed from their posts or jailed, with the stiffest penalties going to those who tried to blame underlings. In Zhejiang province, one commune party secretary named Ji Xinquan got five years in jail for having brought trumped-up court charges against two commune members who had exposed him for stealing timber...
Facing their stiffest competition of the season, the men tracksters ran up against powerhouses Penn, Army, and Princeton and fell quickly down to earth after an inspired victory in the GBC's of last week...
...Harvard team faces its strongest competition of the fall this weekend at Amherst, as they seek to capture the prestigious New England championship for the first time. Harvard will receive its stiffest challenges from defending champions Dartmouth, and powerful Yale, who did not participate last year...
...granted tax relief to property owners but not to renters, have stirred up California's tenants; they had appealed to landlords to pass on a portion of their tax savings to them, but many landlords refused to do so. As a consequence, Santa Monica enacted one of the stiffest control laws in the country and rolled all rents back to the levels of April 1978. Since November, Los Angeles, Berkeley, Davis and parts of Beverly Hills have voted for rent control. San Diego consumerists are agitating to get rent control on the ballot for a September election...