Word: caravan
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...promised to work for a comprehensive Middle East settlement. He defended the loyalty of the armed forces and warned his adversaries that if they broke the law they would be dealt with "unmercifully." "There is no difference between Muslim and Christian," he declared. "We are all of the same caravan. Let us always ask what we can give to Egypt, not what we can take from...
...away in order to lead. He broke away in order to explore the road ahead, at great risk to himself. He proved that his instinct and vision were correct, that if he moved ahead far enough and reached at least one oasis, he could point the way of the caravan out of the wilderness...
Sometime on the night of Sept. 4, a contingent of heavily armed Islamic guards arrived at Evin Prison in northwest Tehran in a caravan of largely empty Jeeps and minibuses. As sleepy-and astonished-prison guards watched, the intruders rounded up some 150 prisoners, many of whom had recently been incarcerated for political crimes by the fundamentalist courts of the beleaguered Khomeini regime. Corralled into groups of eight to ten, the prisoners were led outside to the waiting vehicles. When some guards objected to the mysterious procedure, they were crisply told to mind their own business...
...police helicopter churns overhead, searchlight sweeping over the melee below. For a mile east and a mile west, six lanes of traffic move in caravan, a rolling cacophony of full-blast stereos rising above a cross-lane exchange of insults, come-ons and general greetings. Along the sidewalk-the famous chocolate terrazzo sidewalk embedded with bronze-edged stars framing the names of superstars-gang members defiantly stake out their turf. There are police on horseback, on motorcycles, on foot, in plainclothes. Knots of bewildered tourists, looking for Tinseltown, realize they have wandered into a weekend war zone...
Cruisers prefer to travel in groups, and to proceed very, very slowly. Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles was the city's prime caravan route until the police began shutting the street on weekends. The cruisers moved to Van Nuys, in the San Fernando Valley. It was closed. They moved on, to Hollywood Boulevard...