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...Lefortovo prison, always under bright lights, Potashov was sentenced to 13 years and shipped east to the notorious Perm-35 prison camp in the Urals. "After Lefortovo," he said, "there was a 17-day trip in a cage with 15 murderers, all with TB. In Perm I was a transport worker hauling 500 lbs. of metal parts in a handcart. I had to push the cart, and my right shoulder joint broke." Potashov and the other prisoners worked 10 hours a day, six days a week. Although only 37, Potashov aged rapidly in the Gulag. "I was in Perm five...
Thus, following the U.N. Resolution, the Arab states and local Arab leaders went into high gear to secure their prediction that "any line of partition would be a line of fire and blood." A day after the U.N. General Assembly's resolution, the Arabs opened their attack on Jewish transport. They carried out raids and arson in outlying Jewish quarters in mixed-population towns...
TIME Magazine reports that acting on a tip from the Japanese government, the U.S. prepared to raid the cult's midtown Manhattan office in March, before the Tokyo subway attack. An Air Force C-141 transport plane loaded with federal agents took off from Andrews Air Force base, but the raid was stopped when a federal judge would not issue a search warrant. The Associated Press reported today that the receptionist at the office said there was nothing there to interest federal agents. "We have nothing chemical here. Even the cockroaches...
...wake of Wednesday's car bombing in Oklahoma City which left 31 people dead, 200 injured and 300 others missing, Harvard Police Chief Paul E. Johnson issued bomb advisory notices to the Harvard community yesterday. And the Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority (MBTA) closed the subway for an hour after receiving an anonymous bomb threat...
Understandably, few German experts have much sympathy with this attitude, though most realize that direct demands for restitution will simply be rejected. "It was by no means necessary to transport the artworks to the Soviet Union for conservation," protests Werner Schmidt, general director of the Dresden State Art Collections and chairman of the joint Russo-German commission deliberating on the mutual return of art loot. In 1955, when the Russians returned paintings to the Dresden Gallery (in communist East Germany), they made a huge, face- saving fuss over the allegedly terrible state in which these treasures had been found...