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Repeat these adjustments until the required intonation is reached, and then tighten the pressure pad screws (Fig. 4 F) inthe locking nuts.

The Alnico 2 magnet and moderate windings yield a warm, sweet tone with more natural string vibration for great sustain.

After tuning, tighten the pressure pad screwon the locking nut.

For this purpose the Ministry has set up the largest programme in the folk culture area, i.e. the national support system for choirs, dance groups and orchestras.

He points out that the beatings, asphyxiation and death threats to which he was subjected were committed with the consent of the criminal prosecutor who subsequently ordered his detention.

Once the detainees had been identified, they were forced to lie on the ground and were then beaten with batons, kicked and stamped on.

They included an artistic interpretation of the abominable practice of lynching, to which many former slaves and their early descendants were subjected in parts of the United States; a reading of excerpts from the autobiography of the ex-slave Olaudah Equiano, also known as Gustavus Vassa the African, who experienced slavery and the horrors of the middle passage as an 11-year-old; and a riveting a cappella performance by Kaïssa, a celebrated Cameroonian singer, who drew attention to this year’s theme with an introspective song advocating positive change in aspects of traditional and cultural practices pertaining to women in some African societies, in order to guarantee an even greater expression of collective freedom.

The mistreatment consisted, inter alia, of punches or kicks to different parts of the body or blows with weapons, as well as electrical shocks, burns, spraying with pepper gas, or suffocation with plastic bags.

The delegation observed detainees who were in need of medical treatment, for example because the mob who had brought them to the gendarmerie had beaten them, but who had either not asked to see a doctor, or had not been provided with access to a doctor.

It is little wonder in view of such incidents that both Médecins Sans Frontières and UNICEF have recently said that the number of children suffering from stress disorder has greatly increased.41 Colonel Desmond Travers, a member of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (whose report is generally known as the “Goldstone Report”) said in a recent interview: “If the British had behaved toward children who threw stones at them in the manner that is the norm on the West Bank for Israeli security forces — whereby children are rounded up in the evening and taken to places of detention, hooded, beaten, and in some cases tortured — the Northern Ireland problem would not be resolved today.