Word: three
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...devoted to verbatim testimony spoken in halting, sometimes disjointed phrases by Greeks who either underwent torture themselves or witnessed the cruel treatment of others. One of the witnesses was an Athenian housewife named Anastasia Tsirka, who was arrested late in 1967 after police agents in a midnight raid found three pamphlets from underground political groups in her home. To find out who had given her the documents, Asphalia (secret police) agents took Mrs. Tsirka, then two or three months pregnant, to their headquarters on Bouboulinas Street for questioning...
...Three-Way Trade. The U.S. and Israel began pressing for the release of the two TWA passengers soon after they were imprisoned, but the Syrians at first refused to consider any kind of deal. Israel then turned to the Egyptians, who suggested a wider swap of prisoners. As talks progressed, Egypt asked that Israel return the Syrian pilots, and the Israelis countered by demanding the return of Samueloff and Muallem. This brought Syria grudgingly into the bargaining, which was conducted largely through the Italian embassy in Damascus and broke down three times. The International Red Cross concluded the arrangement...
...Middle East the direct approach is not always the most successful one. Last week a complicated three-way swap of prisoners took place among Israel, Syria and Egypt. Shlomo Samueloff, a Hebrew University physiology professor, and Saleh Muallem, a travel agent, had been held in Damascus since their TWA jet was hijacked on Aug. 29. They were exchanged for 13 Syrians held by the Israelis, including two pilots who had accidentally flown their Syrian Air Force MIG-17s into Israel 16 months ago. In an emotional scene at Lydda airport, Premier Golda Meir hugged and kissed the two returnees...
This time around, Eugene McCarthy has won a national election. The three-member poetry prize committee of the National Endowment for the Arts has chosen his poem, Three Bad Signs, for a $500 award. Completed during the Indiana primary campaign last year, the poem appears to be a sly indictment of the typical small-town reaction to Clean Gene's crusaders...
Outboard racing has come a long way since the days when a handful of happy-go-lucky amateurs tooled around in one-cylinder put-puts. Today's engines are V-4s and straight 6s, pounding out 155 h.p. And there are as many as three of the monsters on each craft. Outboard Marine readily admits to spending 1 % of its gross outboard sales on its racing team, and rumors are that Kiekhaefer, maker of Mercury engines, invests as much as $3,000,000 a year pn dozens of races at California's Tahoe, Elsinore and Parker...