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...patio of an elegant apartment house. Others wearing helmets and flak jackets waited patiently in a few lined-up tanks and armored personnel carriers. Machine gun, tank and mortar fire were crashing back and forth down the Avenue Abdallah Yafi. Wandering pensively behind two tanks, Bruce, 23, a Brooklyn-born yeshiva student, was clutching a Hebrew Bible in one hand and a rifle in the other. "I back the government 100%," he said. "We've suffered so much from the terrorists for years. I feel we have no choice but to do this...
...Israeli was particularly surprised to hear Rabbi Meir Kahane extolling Allen Goodman after his wanton shooting in the Dome of the Rock mosque as a "hero who tried to liberate the Temple Mount from the hands the foreigners." Since 1971, the Brooklyn-born Kahane, 49, has become as familiar a figure in Israel for his extreme right-wing views as he was in New York City in the late 1960s, when he founded the Jewish Defense League. Kahane seeks to drive all Palestinians out of the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. "I want to remove the Arabs of Israel...
...they found them they would kill all of them." They feared with reason. May 14, 1981, on the Sumpul River near the Honduran border, the Salvadoran National Guard, the paramilitary ORDEN group, and at least two military helicopters massacred as many as 600 women and children. According to a Brooklyn-born priest who witnessed the one-sided fighting, women were "tortured before the finishing shot, infants thrown into the air for target practice...A Honduran fisherman found five small bodies of children in his fishtrap." Make no mistake; American guns, American ammunition, American helicopters, and on occasion even American personnel...
...long time, Brooklyn-born Pat Benatar thought she was going to be an opera singer. Her mother had been in the chorus at the New York City Opera, and their home resounded with classical music. In Lindenhurst, N.Y., little Patty started singing in the fourth grade, and by the age of twelve, it was obvious that she not only liked to sing, she really could sing. There was only one problem: she wanted to sing rock 'n' roll...
...eight finalists, along with 15 other youths who hope to qualify in future years, spent four weeks at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. There they sharpened their skills with military-like drilling (reveille at 6:15 a.m., followed by seven hours of problem solving) under Brooklyn-born Coach Murray Klamkin, 60, of the University of Alberta...