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Those who were going home would take with them unforgettable memories of Prades and the little man who, to honor Bach, had broken his vow not to play in public again until Franco's government had been ousted from his native Spain...
...regime prohibited familial affection. When Lien requested permission to pick a mango from a nearby tree, the guard made her vow that she intended to eat it herself and not to bring it back to the camp to share with her brothers. After taking a few bites of the unripe and bitter fruit, she handed the remaining portion over to the guard to prove that she did not, as she puts it, "love too much...
...vigilante never had to act on his vow. In 1975 a grand jury in North Carolina indicted MacDonald for the murders. When MacDonald finally took the stand, his wounded-victim posture collapsed. This time the prosecution's reconstruction of the murders, based on blood types, a footprint, and threads from the doctor's pajama top, horrified grand jurors. Mac-Donald apparently had bludgeoned Colette and Kimberly and held two-year-old Kristen across his lap to stab her. At his rial delayed almost five years by appeals, he was found guilty of first-and second-degree murder. MacDonald...
...RADACADS (Radical Academics) vow to expose the ways of the Harvard Administration until the banner is paid for or returned. We call on others who have been harassed to contact us so that we may add to our forthcoming compilation of examples of political harassment. There will be a rapid escalation of exposure of the Harvard Administration in the coming months. Only in this way--not by the old idealist arguments for free speech--will revolutionary and progressive groups be relieved of a pattern of political repression. Henry C. Park '84 RADACADS spokesperson
...young industry also requires greater capitalization, for both expanded production and more effective marketing; even in big cities, the wines are still hard to find. The land, the climate and the demand for good wine, however, are there. Within ten years, they vow in the valleys, Yakima and Columbia will be wine-cellar words...