Word: bre
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners in Israel expanded last week into an Arab cause célèbre. More than 300 Arab convicts joined the protest in five jails. A demonstration by prisoners' relatives and sympathizers in East Jerusalem degenerated into a near riot. An Arab civic organization in the city called a half-day sit-in strike in the Al Aqsa mosque, Jerusalem's sacred Muslim shrine. The reason for the agitation: the recent deaths of two Palestinian inmates who were force-fed by Israeli authorities at Nafha prison. Last week TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief David...
Driven by the pressures of election-year politics, the case of Billy Carter's Libyan connections ballooned rapidly last week into a full-fledged Senate inquiry and a political cause célèbre. Operating under the most intense scrutiny by press and public since Watergate days, the Senators will try to find out why Carter accepted $220,000 from the Libyan government; what, if anything, he did in return for the money; and how he arranged a deal with an American oil company that could have -and still may-net him millions in broker's fees...