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Ninety minutes after the blast, an anonymous caller, speaking in Arabic, telephoned the Beirut office of Agence France-Presse, the French news agency, and claimed responsibility in the name of Islamic jihad (holy war). This shadowy organization, whose leaders are unknown and whose membership is uncertain, has been associated with the previous car bombings in Beirut. The caller declared, "In the name of God the Almighty, Islamic jihad announces that it is responsible for blowing up a car rigged with explosives, which was driven by one of our suicide commandos. The operation proves that we will carry out our previous...
...during those years, many of the victims vanishing after the military took power in a 1976 coup. Large numbers were tortured to death in "subhuman" makeshift centers that lacked ventilation, plumbing and other amenities, where jailers used methods, such as prolonged outdoor burial up to the neck, that were "unknown in other parts of the world." Alfonsin thanked the commission for its "hard, painful, heroic work" but did not indicate whether he would prosecute or even release the names of those accused of the crimes. The 60,000 citizens who demonstrated outside the presidential palace after the report...
...more concerned with ideas than applications," Cooper says. "In discovering unknown substances, we have a way to understand nature's rules. We must understand why the new molecules behave differently."CrimsonWigo L. GerclaN. JOHN COOPER...
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...companion sexually assaulted her with a knife. Under hypnosis she recalled too much, including several incidents that could not have happened. In throwing out a rape conviction in 1983, New York's highest court declared that hypnosis created "a mixture of accurate recall, fantasy or pure fabrication in unknown quantities...