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Sherry did not appear at McGuire's hearing. The doctor, who lives in New York, sent a telegram to the court probation officer stating he could not attend the hearing because of illness. McGuire ordered his arrest during the hearing...
...Bureau seemed intent on terrorizing their victim, and they succeeded. It was 1 a.m. when they marched into Peking's sprawling Friendship Hotel, where many foreigners working in China live. The police told room clerks to awaken American Teacher Lisa Wichser, 29, and tell her that an urgent telegram had arrived for her. When the petite, sandy-haired and somewhat sleepy Wichser appeared to claim it, she was handcuffed and hustled without explanation into a police car. Technically, at least, the graduate student from Noblesville, Ind., had not been arrested. She was merely being held in a Peking detention...
...explained that Cambridge was the first city in the nation to reject civil defense evacuation plans proposed last year and that the council had passed a resolution favoring a nuclear weapons freeze. He also noted that the council had sent a telegram to President Reagan expressing concern over nuclear proliferation and support for disarmament...
Dayan came to the rescue. He produced jeeps and personnel carriers to bring the Israeli negotiating team to my hotel, where we met at 9:30 a.m. By noon we had in effect agreed that I would ask Sadat by telegram to accept the 30-km limit for surface-to-air missiles (which I knew he would do). The Israeli negotiating team meanwhile would put before the Cabinet for final approval the Egyptian requirement that 30 tanks and six batteries of howitzers remain on the east bank of the Canal. At noon we were finished. "It is a good agreement...
...number of deaths in 1981 at 13,353. Human rights researchers at El Salvador's Central American University put the figure at 13,500. The Salvadoran Human Rights Commission claims that the real number is 16,267. Amnesty International, the highly respected international human rights organization, sent a telegram to President Reagan saying that "we cannot concur" with Washington's assessment that the Salvadoran government is beginning to control the excesses of its own armed forces. The American Civil Liberties Union has issued a 287-page report claiming that the Duarte government is responsible for "the great majority...