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Only 81 Jews were allowed to leave the Soviet Union in January while tens of thousands of citizens--called "refusniks"--were denied visas.
England's response to the bewildering social evils caused by the Industrial Revolution was unique even in a world long used to such officially sanctioned slaughters as the Spanish Inquisition, when tens of thousands of convicted heretics were burned. The English meted out the death penalty for more than...
Death row is full of the poor and the powerless. At the same time, as sociologist Jefferey Reinman has pointed out, government leaders such as Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon have never even gone to trial for their involvement in military actions abroad which led to the deaths of tens...
Belatedly, card issuers and merchants are organizing. Tens of thousands of stores are displaying black and red stop-sign decals with "fraud" printed on them, warning potential perpetrators that the business has been visited by a traveling team of anticrime experts. Visa, which has 65 million U.S. cardholders, hired former...
Anyway, Amin was now dead. Earlier, Karmal had been located in Europe and brought to Moscow. He agreed to be the President of Afghanistan and to invite Soviet troops in to protect his regime. Even before that announcement was made, tens of thousands of our ground troops were moving into...