Word: alleyways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sound the alarm. "Soldiers!" cries a 13-year-old girl, peeking out the window of the dank second-story apartment. As she hides a framed picture of a "martyred" relative, wrapped in the outlawed Palestinian flag, three young men dash out the back door and flee down the narrow alleyway. When the Israeli soldiers hurl a stone through the open window, two middle-aged women cower on the bed, rocking back and forth in terror. "God help us," pleads Umm Hamada, 45, desperately rubbing her hands together...
...defy Israeli authority. At the central square in Am'ari, a refugee camp on the road between Jerusalem and Ramallah, the shabab gathered, young men ranging in age from 15 to 30. The camp, which houses 5,000 people, is a concrete maze with open sewers running down each alleyway. "No matter what time the army comes, we come out and start confronting them," said Osama Nijim, 23. It has become a way of life, the only way of life in recent weeks, when work has been scarce because of strikes, and soldiers are everywhere...
...line of about 100 waiting voters. Using machetes and machine guns, they cut down several Haitians on the spot, then hunted down and butchered many who had tried to flee. One woman was decapitated under an almond tree in the schoolyard. Another was dismembered in an adjacent alleyway. At least 17 people, possibly more, died in the attack. Said Photographer Diederich after surveying the scene: "There was no discrimination about whom they killed...
Beside the intrepid, naked reporter crouches another man. A big man. A man with the taut flanks and self-assured ease of a man who could only be lax team captain Buddy Bixford. The men crouch, together in the alleyway. There is silence...
...house alone late on Friday night and were not seen again until they emerged through the rear door on Saturday evening. Not until a day later, after the story had roared through the political community, did the Herald reporters concede they had not kept consistent watch on the rear alleyway exit until almost dawn Saturday...