Word: camped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gang controlled about half of Detroit's crack trade, running 200 drug houses, supplying some 500 more and raking in $3 million a week. The key to their success was the supply of green kids from Marianna, who were subjected to a regimen far more harrowing than Marine boot camp...
Bush's strategy calls for limning his differences with Dukakis in terms that are as dramatic as possible -- in part because the two have similar stolid images but Dukakis is better on television. The Bush camp foresees a close election, with neither side conceding any significant bloc of voters. "We're going after every traditional democratic constituency, including labor, blacks, Hispanics, Jews and ethnics," vows Bush Spokesman Peter Teeley...
...Chirac, the arithmetic was more problematical. In addition to his 19.9%, the experts reckoned he could count on 11.5 percentage points from Le Pen's voters and 15 from the Barre camp. That would still leave him short...
...territories. Temporarily burying their longtime rivalries, local members of the factions -- Arafat's Fatah as well as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, local Communists and Islamic fundamentalists -- put together broadly representative "popular committees" in almost every camp and village. The factions organized a loose coordinating body, the Unified National Leadership. "We are running the show, not those outside the territories," says a Palestinian who has become one of the leaders of the uprising in the West Bank. Like the other leaders, he insists on anonymity; call him Mahmoud...
...year-old graduate of Israeli jails, Mahmoud has worked since February to stoke the fires of rebellion. His personal allegiance is to Fatah al- Intifadeh, a hard-line, pro-Syrian faction. His first assignment was to transform the informal activism of his home refugee camp into an efficient engine of protest. With seven other Palestinians representing most of the P.L.O. factions and one spokesman for unallied "independents," Mahmoud welded together a series of secret subcommittees charged with various aspects of the rebellion...