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...charter to the International Red Cross. Shortly before takeoff, a convoy of 18 Israeli ambulances with red Star of David markings drew alongside the jet, owned by a charter company called Balair. Slowly, in some cases painfully, 44 men walked or were carried aboard. Those on stretchers wore green pajamas and were wrapped in gray blankets with their hospital records pinned to their chests. All were Egyptians captured by Israel in last month's bitter Sinai fighting; they were going home aboard one of the few direct flights between Tel Aviv and Cairo to take place in 25 years...
...torture continued for days. Fidel would beat Kasler across the buttocks with a large white truck fan belt until "he tore my rear end to shreds." At one point Fidel said, "You are going to see a delegation if we have to carry you on a stretcher." For one three-day period, Kasler was beaten with the fan belt every hour from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., and kept awake at night...
...medical school, he spent five years studying piano and conducting at the Detmold Music Academy. There he became frustrated at his inability to make his hands do what he wanted them to do at the keyboard. Despite six hours of daily practice, a couple of trips to a finger stretcher and various remedial exercises, he could not overcome what he took to be his natural limitations, so he abandoned his studies...
...nothing except 250 grams of rice and some salt. If we were lucky we found bamboo shoots and cooked them. There was no milk or sugar." Illness claimed 20% of the unit. Many of the wounded died en route to a field hospital, a seven-or eight-day stretcher trip. Surrounded, out of food and low on ammunition after hard fighting near Khong Sédong, Dai and some of his comrades surrendered...
Vena, a three-year starter for Harvard, went off on a stretcher Saturday after injuring his right knee. But Restic does not expect that the injury will keep the veteran tackle out of the lineup against don't know about the other two," Restic said yesterday...