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...stairs, my right hand was handcuffed to Zac's left and we were led into the sunlight. For a moment I was blinded and unable to move. The sun had never felt so clean on my grimy skin. A policeman pushed us into a Land Rover with the barrel of his carbine. We were going to court...
...accounts, is his organization. With many Palestinians who once saw their future through the barrel of a gun now seeking a seat at the peace table, a senior P.L.O. official claims that the terrorist network is disintegrating. And it is doing so in a shower of blood. P.L.O. officials recount how three of Abu Nidal's top lieutenants were shot at his house near Tripoli late last year and their bodies buried under tons of concrete. In all, says the P.L.O., 25 associates have been murdered at the house, and other F.R.C. members suspected of disloyalty have been executed...
Benjamin Thompson Associates--the firm responsible for designing New York City's South Street Seaport Boston's Quincy Market and Cambridge's Crate and Barrel building--will serve as architects for the project Banker said...
...dismal, grey landscape--a path on the mudflats of the Swartops river. Boesman and Lena have nothing but what they carry on their backs, and what they carry is "white man's rubbish"--pieces of metal to make a shack for the night, a rusty barrel, a few dirty blankets and two wooden crates...
...truncated and unrevised form, The People will add little to Malamud's reputation, which hardly needs embellishment in any case. His novels, including The Natural and The Assistant, and books of stories such as The Magic Barrel and Idiots First long ago established his place among the best postwar American writers. This triumph was not easily won. Malamud never catered to popular tastes or expectations. His fiction was often as grim as it was enchanting. He wrote, and rewrote, slowly, with consummate care...