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...they stick to a trivial incident. They give you a statement to sign, confirming that you are a supporter of the government. You decline, on the grounds that you believe in democracy. The man approaches you, slaps you twice in the face and hits you in the stomach. It hurts and you get very angry. "You can go now", he says. And, as you turn to leave, "be sure to tell your friends that we know everything." Are they bluffing? You won't know until it is too late...
...Israel after Golda Meir steps down next year was Pinhas Sapir, 64, the hardfisted Finance Minister and boss of the ruling Labor Party machine. But Sapir has had a series of personal misfortunes-the death of his wife a few months ago, the illness of a favorite grandson, major stomach surgery-and is known to be reconsidering his political future...
...young lawyers, trying to serve a subpoena on a TV-repair store owner, thought it would be a lark to slip into their recalcitrant quarry's headquarters and surprise him. But when they got inside, one of them was elbowed in the stomach, and an ominous-looking man said to his boss, "If they gave that paper to me, I'd just put a bullet in em." The attorneys barely managed to talk their...
York is violent on violence. He thoroughly sympathizes with the uproar in the press about violence in contemporary cinema. Even the more sadistic scenes in "Cabaret" were hard for him to stomach, but they were excused for the sake of historical authenticity. He doesn't let a director like Peckinpah off so easily. "My God, a line has to be drawn somehow. There are ways and ways of showing man as a violent animal. I was appalled watching Peckinpah's 'Straw Dogs." An attitude like that is bloodthirsty: it's dangerous and corrosive for people to watch these things...
...most surprising switches in modern times was the dramatic Hitler-Stalin nonaggression pact of 1939, which not only stunned the world but even split many of the world's Communist Parties, which could not stomach a pact with Hitler. Later, after Hitler turned on Russia and the U.S. entered the war, the notion of accepting the Soviet Union as an ally shocked many Americans, who had considered the Bolsheviks archvillains ever since the revolution...