Word: block
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These days Walter Robinson has arranging on the brain. His opera, finished after eight years of starts and stops, must now be staged and led to its audience. The subject matter is a bit of a stumbling block. Robinson has elected to dramatize the true story of Denmark Vesey, an erudite black carpenter who plotted an 1822 slave revolt in Charleston, S.C., and was subsequently hanged for his trouble...
...military and intelligence services remain powerful and threatening. Last week seven military men, including two brigadier generals, were arrested in connection with an assault on a journalist. The chief of army intelligence, Major General Lee Kyu Hong, was relieved of his post on charges that he attempted to block an investigation of the incident. As long as Seoul believes, justifiably, that there is a military threat from North Korea, the South Korean armed forces are bound to maintain a strong influence. "The government of ((South)) Korea is a big ship, and you must change course slowly," says D.J.P. Assemblyman...
...many other Americans. There are people who will no longer ride the subways of the big cities, others who have changed their route to work to avoid the confrontation. In Los Angeles a pedestrian can be approached six times on one block. In El Paso panhandlers congregate at the busiest intersections, hauling children into traffic to tap on the windows of trapped cars. In Chicago they roam the churches, taking their own collections. In Seattle, where a law has been passed banning "aggressive begging," a man was beaten to death in June after allegedly rebuffing a panhandler...
Four days later, however, Jordan announced that it was laying off or retiring 21,000 West Bank civil employees, including teachers, health, and utilities workers. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir responded that Israel would block the P.L.O. from assuming those responsibilities. Jordanian officials said there were no plans to revoke the Jordanian passports held by 750,000 West Bank Palestinians or to close the two bridges that link Jordan and the West Bank...
...anew. When the local council of Al Bureij resigned under orders from intifadeh's leaders, the Israelis placed the refugee camp under 24-hour curfew for two weeks. The army cut power lines and waterlines, and barred the men from working in Israel for one month. Tax raids conducted block by block netted about $90,000. Says a senior official of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency: "Israel wants the population to come and say they've had enough...