Word: camped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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High wire fences separate the United Nations refugee camp at Dheisheh from the rest of Bethlehem. Within, Palestinian children, hiding behind mounds of trash and rubble, sometimes hurl stones at passing cars. Deeper in the shadows, young Arab men vie for political ascendancy with threats of violence. Misbah Mohammed Rizq, 58, is Dheisheh's camp leader. For 30 years Abu Nabil, as Rizq is known, has doled out the U.N.'s meager rations, seen that the camp's fetid sanitation system works and interceded with the Israeli military government to keep his people out of trouble. He performs his difficult...
Amid the squalor, Abu Nabil's family, including four of his children and four grandchildren, live comfortably in an airy two-story concrete house. Nabil receives $650 a month from the U.N. and an additional $500 from a son in Saudi Arabia, enough money to leave the camp. The Rizqs remain, however, hoping to remind the world that the Palestinian problem still exists. Abu Nabil says firmly, "Even if you are doing well yourself, the occupation is a terrible thing...
Corliss likens his sojourn in Cannes to "summer camp in the dark." It was his 15th consecutive festival (he started attending in 1973). "In Cannes, critics mingle with charming men and beautiful women whose films they secretly plan to savage. For a fortnight on the Riviera, I had a great time...
...three U.S. Marine guards swapped secrets for sex in the Soviet Union. Deciding that a two-year statute of limitation prevents it from prosecuting Sergeant John J. Weirick for allegedly allowing Soviet spies into the Leningrad consulate sometime in 1981-82, the Marine Corps released Weirick, 26, from the Camp Pendleton, Calif., brig...
...former dean of the Law School, wrote in a memo to the faculty two years ago that in order to protect the tenure process from becoming a political battleground, he would consider reviewing tenure decisions if asked by either camp...