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...force will be made up of Palestinians from the territories plus exiled Palestinians from two units of Arafat's Palestine Liberation Army: the Badr Brigade in Jordan and the Ain Jalud Brigade in Egypt. The P.L.O. began training these fighters as policemen three months ago, and 1,200 of them have already completed the course. In his office in Amman, Jordan, General Hamed Qudsiyah, head of the Badr Brigade, sits with maps of Jericho on his desk, planning for the deployment of his men there within 10 weeks -- before Arafat's first visit, he says...
Other songs also demonstrate Brooks' impressive range. Ain't Going Down (Til the Sun Comes Up) is a country-rock romp about a daughter out past curfew; One Night a Day starts with some Billy Joel-like piano stroking and later fades into a soulful saxophone solo. But through all this, it's hard to forget Brooks' cheap shot at people "standing in a welfare line...
...JACKSON CASE IS A TANgle of maybes, omigods and say-it- ain't-so's. Both the star and the boy are figures who cry out to be believed. An edgy Hollywood has not rushed to Jackson's defense. Though Sony, with which he has a multizillion-dollar movie and music deal, and Pepsi have offered tepid support, many of Jackson's closest colleagues were conveniently on vacation when they might have spoken up for him. His unauthorized biographer will testify, however. "I believe all these charges will be found to be ludicrous," says J. Randy Taraborrelli (Michael Jackson...
...might be poor," says Oprah Winfrey, "but we ain't sellin' our soul to the devil today." The cameras are rolling as Winfrey, a TV talk-show host who is said to earn more than $40 million a year, tackles her newest role, that of LaJoe Rivers, an impoverished mother of eight children struggling to survive in the Henry Horner Homes, a violent Chicago housing project. The movie, which will air on ABC in November, is the first serious film from Harpo, Winfrey's production company. It's based on the nonfiction best seller There Are No Children Here...
Without any fuss, that established the here and now of the done and gone, which happened to be the last years of the cattle drives. Now it's, oh, 15 years later, maybe 20. Here's the start of the sequel, Streets of Laredo: " 'Most train robbers ain't smart, which is a lucky thing for the railroads,' Call said. 'Five smart train robbers could bust every railroad in this country.' 'This young Mexican is smart,' Brookshire said, but before he could elaborate, the wind lifted his hat right off his head...