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...workday gets under way, a batch of new recruits files in to get M16s. Stratton unlocks the weapons-room door and distributes the rifles. That done, she strides over to the trainee barracks, a nearby three-story brick building. "Female on the floor! Female on the floor!" a door guard loudly yells. Stratton enters so briskly that the men have time only to stand up. "What's this?" she demands, spotting a crumpled white towel tied to the end of a bed. A senior drill sergeant explains, "It's there so we know who to call...
...Tayou near the Thai border. Of its 1975 population of 500, only 100 have survived; of these 90 are women. To compensate for the sharply lowered productivity of the village, the Khmer Rouge controller drives the survivors out into the fields at 4 a.m. for a twelve-hour workday. The daily food ration per person is seven spoonfuls of boiled rice gruel. Since last July there have been four suicides. Other peasants have gone berserk in the fields or have retreated into total, pathological silence. One Ko Tayou villager who fled to Thailand last month...
President Bok spent his workday in seclusion at Dana Palmer House yesterday, 250 yards away from students who held a sit-in outside University Hall to protest the Corporation's recent decision on divestiture...
Today America can go to the disco after work to unplug all that pent-up9-to-5 workday energy and see it gush and explode in the hanging mirrors...
...extending credit to the miners and not pressing them for payment, even though most of the merchants are also hurting financially. Close by Cabin Creek, business at the Marmet Furniture Store is off 50%. Down the road, employees of Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers have had their workday cut from eight hours to five. At the Marmet Burger Chef, the work force, norImally 30 people, has been...