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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story is the engineer Johann, whose red-rimmed eyes, hollow-cheeked beared and skewed teeth suggest a gnome straight out of Grimm's ghastly tales. Nicknamed "The Phantom," he crouches like a magicker among his intricate pumping machinery and shivers with foreboding before each explosion of an underwater bomb. But he is not the only hint of a tradition of fantasy. At one point we awake with the correspondent not knowing whether the terrifying crises of the past hours were real or only a dream. We share an unsettling feeling about the bizarre nature of submarine life: It is both...

Author: By Susan R. Moffat, | Title: Sub Titles | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

...greeted by a barricade of flaming tires and a barrage of stones In Hebron. Jews from a nearby settlement roam the streets, machine guns in hand, smashing the glass from Arab cars and shop fronts In Nablus, Israeli bulldozers demolish 20 Arab houses in retaliation for a bomb blast at a Jewish shop. In Elon Moreh, illegally situated Jewish settlers set up barbed wire to resist the Israeli soldiers who have to be sent in to remove them The picture that emerges from Halabi's assembled reports is not a pleasant one. On both sides of the conflict, the trend...

Author: By Jonathan G. Cedarbaum, | Title: West Bank Report | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

...Marks chosen to speak out now? Well, he admitted, he had decided not to seek re-election in November because of his back problem. Did he fear retaliation from conservative Republicans, including the President? "When I called my wife in the bomb shelter," Marks quipped, "she wasn't concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barbed Farewell | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

Preparations and negotiations for the museum's re-opening began in 1970, after anti-war demonstrators detonated a bomb on the tool of the Divinity Avenue building in protest of the use of the building by the Center for International Affairs...

Author: By Lavka Bractiman, | Title: University's Semitic Museum To Re-Open After 40 Years | 3/17/1982 | See Source »

...bomb's destruction uncovered an unparalleled collection of 19th-century Near last photographs packed away since the early...

Author: By Lavka Bractiman, | Title: University's Semitic Museum To Re-Open After 40 Years | 3/17/1982 | See Source »

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