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...sometimes held hostage until officials find their man; in one case, three family members were detained for nine years before their release in 1980. Twenty-three types of torture are listed in the report, including pouring boiling water on victims, electric shock and sexual abuse. An oft-used tactic is called dullab, in which a person is hung from a suspended tire and beaten with cables and whips. In one testimony, a 15-year-old boy told of being whipped and threatened with blindness if he did not reveal where his father was. Another student described a soundproof torture room...
From the beginning, Thatcher had made it clear that she would use the bankruptcy threat as a bargaining weapon Mitterrand was offended by that tactic as well as by Thatcher's "statistical" approach to problems that he regards as essentially political. Said a French spokesman on the summit's first day: "We were impressed by the rigidity of the British representatives, while the other nine showed a sense of open-mindedness." Replied a British spokesman: "I'm sure that is what Napoleon thought before the Battle of Waterloo." Delving deeper into the history of hostility between...
...break union contracts has become a subject for broad and bitter debate. C. Raymond Grebey, former chief labor negotiator for major league baseball and General Electric, calls it "the most dramatic new ingredient to collective bargaining that we have seen in more than a decade." Labor officials denounce the tactic as union busting. Says Bruce Simon, general counsel for the Air Line Pilots Association: "It was not the intent of the framers of the bankruptcy code to enable renegades like Continental Air Lines to wage eco nomic warfare by destroying our system of collective bargaining." The Supreme Court...
...glancing terms with almost every problem a person is likely to encounter in life, but it really has only one important piece of business in hand: an examination and resolution, in comic terms, of the relationship between a mother and a daughter. Everything else is in effect a diversionary tactic, a way of placing this brilliantly devised and disguised core of concern within the context of lifelike randomness...
...avert a similar calamity in arrow-bamboo regions, where a sizable portion of the wild pandas dwell, Chinese scientists, aided by the World Wildlife Fund, are undertaking emergency measures. One tactic: leaving roasted pork chops and goat meat on the mountain slopes in hopes that the pandas will turn from their normal vegetarian diet. Explained Schaller: "They'll eat meat if they can get it easily." The scientists are also using meat to lure pandas to lower-lying regions where other types of bamboo may be available...