Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rive Gauche section, the Simbas found 28 other victims. The hostages were hacked to pieces on the street. Among them were four Spanish nuns and a number of Spanish and Dutch priests. According to a witness, the priests were beaten and then their throats were cut. After similar treatment, the nuns were placed on top of them. The usual mutilations were carried out on the" sexual organs, and flesh was cut from the bodies to be eaten...
...permits intervention in a state when "national integrity" is threatened, Castello Branco let the military have its way. In the space of two days, 6,000 federal troops poured into the state capital of Goiania. The troops took over the telephone and telegraph systems, power companies and a water-treatment plant, formed up around the palace. Outmanned and outgunned, Borges caved in and turned the government over to the military. The way the brass told it, they got Borges just in time...
Trick-or-treat was what 50 Pennsylvania teen-agers had in mind when they dropped around to the empty Chadds Ford studio of Artist Andrew Wyeth, 47, last Oct. 31. Not a treat but a treatment was what they needed, for they slashed Wyeth's 18th and 19th century costume collection, broke lamps and sculpture, smeared his walls with paint. Wyeth refused to prosecute. Instead, he invited the vandals around for a talk, forgiving the eight who showed up last week when they apologized and promised to do what they could to repay the $2,000 worth of damage...
...those for whom in principle it does not seem entirely unreasonable. He was evidently not acting according to rules set up by a faculty committee but attempted to depose Miss Gillmor ad hoc on the basis of a projected change in rules: and the whole tone of his treatment of her, up to and including his dismissal of her protests as mere publicity-seeking, raises the most disturbing suspicions. Perhaps such treatment of a duly elected officer of a university organization deserves a certain amount of publicity. David Wade Chambers Resident Tutor in History of Science
...escape from this maze by getting an appellate court to rule (as the Supreme Court did in 1962 regarding narcotics addicts) that it is unconstitutional to jail victims of a "disease' over which they have no control. As Hutt sees it, this might force Congres; to provide decent treatment facilities Unhappily for Hutt, Washington's Assistant Corporation Counsel Clark F. King believes that Congress will fail to act. If Hutt wins, says King, drunks "will be turned out on the streets, and the public, including women and children, will be exposed to them and their indecencies...