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...mass press conference, 41 ex-hostages spoke guardedly about their captivity. But in interviews later in the week, several of them supplied new details of the psychological torment and physical mistreatment they had suffered. They confirmed rumors that one and possibly two unidentified hostages had attempted suicide early in their confinement. The ex-captives disclosed that, toward the end of their imprisonment, half a dozen hostages were desperate enough to begin planning a mass escape attempt, even though they knew that they had very little chance of getting out of Iran alive...
...profession. Like almost all writers, Colette found that simple, clear sentences are the most difficult. "I have now begun my scene . . . for the eighth time," she complained to one correspondent. "I've finished-or I think I've finished," she remarked about another story. "But not without torment! The last page, precisely cost me my entire first day [of vacation]-and I defy you, when you read it, to suspect this. Alas, that a mere 20 lines, without fancy effects or embossing of any kind, should make such demands. It's the proportions that give...
...each other's throats. In between, Cambodians are starved out of existence; terrorists go about murdering 80 or more in Bologna, and a mere four outside a Paris synagogue. In Turkey, political violence kills 2,000; in El Salvador, more than 9,000 die in that country's torment. All this on top of natural disasters: Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington State; one earthquake in Algeria kills 3,000; another in Italy takes the same toll. Human enterprise is tested, and responds with black market coffins...
When Alexander Haig replaced H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman as President Nixon's Chief of Staff in May 1973, the Administration still had 14 months of torment ahead. At Haig's Senate confirmation hearings, Democrats probably will dwell on these questions about his shadowy backstage role during those days...
...Justice Department from asking federal judges to use busing as one means of achieving a better racial balance in public schools. The coalition backing the antibusing move was led by Helms. Asked he: "How long are we going to allow a federal bureaucracy in the Justice Department to torment the little children of America...