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Ever since the September peace accord was signed on the White House lawn, radical settlers, especially from the Kahane movement, have been loudly announcing their determination to take matters into their own hands to stop the delivery of land they consider their biblical birthright into the hands of the Palestinians. Settlers in Hebron have been caught on videotape firing repeatedly on Palestinian stone throwers. Jewish militants have stopped Palestinians on the roads and harassed them. The Israeli army for the most part has stood by, doing nothing to subdue them...
...centering mostly on teams that will not make the trip. Among the surprises: France, which needed only a draw to qualify, was beaten, 2-1, in the final 10 seconds of play by upstart Bulgaria. England, playing with a dismal record, was also eliminated, despite its birthright to the game. And European champion Denmark failed to qualify when it was dumped by Spain...
...fell on him. The last Rowen is undone by doubt, destroyed by the conscience his forebear so happily lacked. In between Keach plays a sharecropper who plots vengeance on his landlord for more than four decades before finally regaining his homestead, and that man's son, who deals his birthright away to a slick-talking tale spinner for the Rockefeller energy interests...
...eyes, the tremulous soul -- hinted that Pan was the wrong role for him. Wasn't Jackson really one of the Lost Boys, stranded between childhood and adolescence, loved by the public yet feeling caged and abandoned, and searching, groping for the Edenic innocence he believed was any child's birthright...
...radio and TV audience, but his family -- a prominent Republican brood in Cape Girardeau, Missouri -- has heard it all before. "He didn't start talking until he was two," says his mother Millie, "and then he didn't stop." The ideas were familiar too -- a kind of birthright for Rush. "Echoes of my dad reverberate through everything my brother says," explains Limbaugh's brother David, 39, a lawyer who helped Rush assemble The Way Things Ought to Be. "My dad, more than my brother, was the black sheep. He was a maverick, the lone, passionate voice of conservatism. My brother...