Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response, the defendants charged that they had been tortured into making false confessions. Wing Commander John Cox told the court that his interrogators rubbed a "red-hot wire brush" between his buttocks, then tortured him with electric shocks. After the ordeal, he testified, "I asked them what they wanted...
...U.P.I.-the Avis of wire services-keep its motor running...
...scene, was thus able to report 3½ hours ahead of his Associated Press rivals, who depended on government spokesmen, that Philippine Politician Benigno Aquino had been shot down moments after returning from exile. Yet when the declarative U.P.I, report and a hedged, uncertain A.P. bulletin came over the wire to the Washington Post shortly after 2 a.m. two weeks ago, editors decided to play it safe and put into their final edition a story saying only that Aquino had been arrested on arrival. Without their own reporter present, Post editors were just not ready to rely on any wire...
Also on the left are Frankfurter Rundschau, Die Zeit, a majority of reporters and commentators on West Germany's two major television networks, and many of the staff correspondents of the leading wire service, Deutsche Presse-Agentur. Left of center, but less partisan, is the Suddeutsche Zeitung (circ. 310,000), based in Munich, which spurns ideological zeal and is Germany's nearest equivalent to an independent centrist paper...
...Bethesda, Md. Army officials familiar with the program explained that the most recent test, on July 27, was botched because of improperly placed shims, or washers, in the hot-thrust section of the missile. Glitches that have caused other failures include a faulty hydraulic pump and a misplaced wire that led to a short circuit. Officials of Martin Marietta declined to respond to Wickham's blast...