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When the police finally gained control of the Temple Mount at 1 p.m., 19 / Palestinians lay dead or dying from bullet wounds, and another 140 were wounded. Said Abu Darwish, who witnessed the clashes, "I saw the soldiers deliberately aiming at the chests and heads of the Palestinians." At least six Israeli policemen and more than two dozen Jewish worshipers were also hurt...
MILLER'S CROSSING and GOODFELLAS. A pair of aces about the Mob. The first film, from Joel and Ethan Coen, has gangsters of the '20s spitting out aphorisms and wrestling with ethics. The second, Martin Scorsese's bullet train of a cautionary comedy, shows the Mafia in its rapacious decline. Both make offers no moviegoer should refuse...
Ideas like these win applause from think-tank experts but have failed to arouse much enthusiasm on Capitol Hill. The real problem is not with the budgetmaking process but with those who are in charge of it. The Gramm-Rudman- Hollings law was billed as the magic bullet that would blow away both the deficit ogre and the obstacles to orderly action. Gramm-Rudman has proved to be a dud. Overhauling the machinery yet again would help only if its operators were able to muster the will to run it properly. But if they could manage that, no overhaul would...
During a parliamentary session last week, Deputy Sergei Byelozertsev declared that units from four divisions and two regiments of paratroops had moved into the Moscow area. "I want an explanation for why they were in uniform, armed with tear gas, bullet-proof clothing and weapons," he said. He also demanded to know why two divisions had been placed under KGB command. KGB chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov called the Deputy's statement "groundless...
...spring of 1948, the body of CBS correspondent George Polk washed up in Salonika bay, his hands and feet bound with rope, a bullet hole in the back of his head. The Greek pathologist who conducted the autopsy on the 34-year- old journalist found 3 lbs. of undigested lobster in his stomach...