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...have an army, units and officers like these. But I hope we never have to repeat it." Less restrained was the Israeli radio announcer who first broadcast a hint of what was under way. "Hallelujah!" he exclaimed, to which the rest of the civilized world could now only say "Amen," as one of the most brazen terrorist acts in recent years has come to a surprising and welcome resolution...
...worms, lilies, a dead dove. But for the rest, he remains the creator of a small miracle: the only man besides John Updike who can write about salvation and damnation in a world rapidly becoming trivialized by loneliness and loss of ardor, a world with an end but no amen...
Arab Americans have long been among the nation's least visible and vocal minorities. Al Amen, an Arab community activist in Dearborn, Mich., says he could not get a job at a local community college because, in the words of a college official: "You're not black, you're not white, and you don't speak Spanish." He complains that Arab Americans, contemptuously called "camel jockeys," are never given time off for Islamic holidays. Arab Americans are relatively small in number-between 1 million and 1.5 million -and they are dispersed in the nation and split...
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...major problem with the record is that it was made from a BCN show presented May 13, 1973 and the material was outdated well before Nixon resigned. Parts of this record actually make Watergate entertaining. The beginning, for example, features a holy roller preacher howling "The hypocrites in the Amen corner have got this world in a hell of a state!" and later on, in a reenactment of the break-in, cheap violins and restaurant noises copped from a grade B mafia movie provide background for a lobster dinner before the break-in, and the theme song from "Mission Impossible...