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...Revolutionary Council, described to TIME'S Raji Samghabadi how SAVAK agents in 1964 lashed the soles of his feet with electric cable: "The flesh was torn apart, and the bones jutted out. There were multiple fractures." The agents, he says, also held a knife to his throat for hours, making small nicks and telling him to guess "when the blade might go all the way down and sever my head." Amnesty International in the 1970s described other methods of torture: electric shock, burning on a heated metal grill, and the insertion of bottles and hot eggs into the anus...
...army, was killed by Pol Pot's forces. Now she listlessly waved her arms as she sang a song titled The Day They Killed My Father. At the end, when she described her father's death, she drew a forefinger across her throat, as if to slash...
Johanna Forman, Paula Newnham, Pat Gopaul and freshman Lenny Yajima will team up for the mile relay. Another freshman, Darlene Beckford--who is recovering from a sore throat after her return from the national cross-country championships--will anchor the speedy trio of Martha Clabby, freshman Ellen Gallagher and Rebecca Rogers in the two-mile relay...
Then, a calm silence settled over the tundra. The rabid polar bear lay peacefully, harpoon through the throat, its guts coloring the bland snow. Justin kneeled, motionless. Kamik rubbed his arm violently in the snow, wailing in his native Eskimo dialect...
...needed boost on money markets. But the greenback twitched indecisively as traders remained mesmerized by the theatrics of the Iranian drama. Since the freezing of Iran's money in U.S. banks, some of the counterthreats from Tehran have been plainly bluster. "We have the dollar by the throat," chortled Banisadr. Not quite. Though the National Iranian Oil Co. announced that it no longer will accept dollars for oil, Iran needs the U.S. currency to pay for imports of everything from Australian wheat to Japanese machinery, which are all priced in dollars in international trading. Iran's oil exports...