Word: camped
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Abbas' career, indeed, could serve as a handy capsule illustration of P.L.O. factionalism. He was born in Haifa in 1947, a year before that city became part of the newly created state of Israel. He was taken to Syria a decade later and grew up in the Yarmuk refugee camp near Damascus. Though one U.S. official last week characterized Abbas as "an uneducated thug," he studied English and Arabic literature at the University of Damascus...
...hijackers aboard the Boeing 737 at the Sigonella air base in Sicily had been taken into Italian custody and charged with murder, kidnaping and hijacking. But the mysterious Abul Abbas had literally flown the coop, aboard a Yugoslav JAT jet bound from Rome to Dubrovnik and Belgrade. Back at Camp David, when President Reagan received word from Deputy National Security Adviser Admiral John Poindexter of Abbas' escape, he cursed mildly...
...officials at the State Department, who consider participation by moderate elements of the Palestinian camp to be crucial to any future settlement, feel that writing off Arafat is far easier said than done. He is, in many ways, a Lazarus, continually belying his obituary. Despite the embarrassment and setbacks it has suffered, the P.L.O. has not stopped being, as one U.S. diplomat put it, the "only available symbol" to most Palestinians of their national cause...
...woman has ever commanded a spacecraft, but Hollywood scriptwriters are known for flights of fancy. So in Spacecamp, filmed partly at the real-life U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala., the plot contrives to have Actress Kate Capshaw take off accidentally and become the first American woman to take charge of a space-shuttle mission. Capshaw, who traipsed dizzily in and out of the Temple of Doom with Indiana Jones, confesses that "before this movie, I was unaware of space except for in grade school." The actress has been coached on the set by no less an expert than Sally...
...fact, in the 100-meter time trials conducted at the camp, Benson clocked in as the fastest goalie--and Scherrer as the second-fastest field player...