Word: camped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remark was prompted by the death of a twelve-year-old Palestinian boy named Ramadan Zeitun, who was shot last week during disturbances at the Balata refugee camp near the West Bank town of Nablus. At first it was assumed that the boy had died after Israeli soldiers fired into a crowd of rioters. Later it appeared that he may have been shot by a carful of local Israeli settlers. Either way, his death symbolizes the confusion and chaos that beset the West Bank as it undergoes the worst round of violence there since the spring...
...roadblock that had been erected by the Israelis. When Israeli soldiers advanced, the students threw stones, and the soldiers responded with tear gas and then bullets. Two students, both of them 22, were killed instantly. The next day a 14-year-old was shot dead at the Balata refugee camp, where three days later Zeitun was killed. Skirmishes flared as soldiers fought running street battles with youthful Palestinians. Meanwhile, the Israelis set up additional roadblocks, checking identity cards and searching for arms...
...journey to Hawaii is being funded by donations and by profits from last summer's two-week basketball camp, run by the players...
Chiarelli's athletic career isn't confined to hockey, however. He played football and baseball at Sir Robert Borden High School and even tried out with the Pittsburgh Pirates in a free agent camp before deciding that playing hockey and going to college in the U.S. was what he really wanted...
...summer of 1980, his legal aspirations temporarily sidelined, Moore started to train with the Bengals. At first he found pro camp very tough. "The only advantage I had over other people was mental," he says...