Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week. They angered the country's Christian Phalangists by ordering their militia to close at least one of its barracks near Sidon, south of the Awali. In response, thousands of Christians in southern Lebanon protested by closing their shops and building roadblocks of smoldering tires and barbed wire. With the Syrians still showing no signs that they are prepared to remove any of their 60,000 troops from Lebanese soil, the country once again faced the prospect of increasing violence, together with a de facto partition...
...system itself is to blame. It has produced marvels of mass literacy (nearly 100%), but also of mass conformity. It rewards dogged rote learning, but not the kind of daring involved in making creative and unorthodox intellectual connections. "Every Japanese child," says one writer, "has a kind of invisible wire rack inserted into its body and mind," like flowers in an arrangement, like a bonsai tree. The Japanese examination system subjects the young to purgatories of cramming. It is one more symptom of a densely determined and obligated life, and some of the young these days are escaping into...
...soldier pressed a Kalashnikov assault rifle into his back. Another officer struck Foley in the face several times and leveled a 9-mm pistol at his head. The soldiers severely beat the driver, who suffered a broken finger and thumb as well as multiple bruises. Pierce was bound with wire and taken to a Syrian military headquarters in Tripoli...
...number of protesters doubled to over 30, the fast captured the attention of the national wire services, local television and radio stations, and even a liberal South African daily...
...overseeing the camps. There was nothing humane about the removal and internment--120,000 men, women. and children, nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens, were forced from their homes with as little as 48 hours notice, and imprisoned from two to five years in 10 barbed-wire "concentration camps" (the term actually used in the private inter-office government memos) located in some of the least hospitable parts of our nation. The internees were subject to overcrowding, housing in horse stalls and tarpaper shacks, gross lack of privacy, poor sanitation and inadequate food. Dozens of internees were shot...