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...women are wrapped up in their own sexuality, even tormented by it. One craves bloody flesh; another, the Russian named Ytrasie, whose romanticism pushes her into rather appealing heroism, has black braids which "flew out like whips." Yet they are frightened of their own desires, and tend to suppress them. As a result, they remain unfulfilled or their bodies are reshaped by their lovers' ravishment, while "the soul splits apart, and tastes like salt." The women of her verse refrain from jeopardizing others only to be, Sagan hints, themselves destroyed...
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has so far refrained from joining the chorus of anti-Nasser abuse. Significantly, he has also taken no steps to suppress it. It is no secret in Cairo that Sadat has long felt that Nasser's particular brand of socialism and his costly foreign policy adventures (such as his military intervention in the Congo and Yemen civil wars) blocked Egypt's economic progress. Sadat gradually closed the country's concentration camps; many political leaders imprisoned by Nasser have been rehabilitated and returned to positions of power. Mustafa Amin, who was released from prison...
...armed forces a year ago, sternly announced his intention of indicting such soldiers on a charge of attempting "to demoralize the army for the purpose of harming national defense." He also reactivated an emergency special court for national security that had been set up in 1963 to suppress terrorists of the O.A.S., the secret army organization of French Algerians. Soon afterward, 16 soldiers were arrested. If they are found guilty, they face a maximum often years in prison. Declared Bourges' deputy, General Marcel Bigeard: "The government has now decided to destroy those who openly advocate the destruction...
...biopsy catheter into the right ventricle via the jugular vein, doctors snip a piece of tissue, then compare it with a sample taken at the time of the original operation. If the biopsied tissue shows inflammation-a sign of rejection-the doctors temporarily increase the dosage of drugs that suppress the immune system after transplant surgery...
Franco's entire career, from 1920 until his death, represents an unrelieved campaign against political and social democracy in Spain and elsewhere. His initial fame arose from his part in the 1921 war against tribesmen in Spanish Morocco. In 1934 the rightist Spanish government called on him to suppress an insurrection of miner's in northern Spain; his bloody tactics earned him the title "butcher of Asturias...