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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...local car dealer offers a free car to a Clarkson fan who can shoot a puck from the middle of the hockey rink through a small hole in the net during one of the intermissions. Also, a seat number is announced at every game and a local bank offers a $50 savings bond to a fan sitting in that seat--if the fan is wearing Clarkson green and gold...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: College Hockey Fever ... Catch It! | 11/11/1988 | See Source »

Squad members say the job is merely to intimidate and jail the ringleaders of the intifadeh. Specially trained soldiers armed with light, concealable weapons pose as Arabs as they prowl the territories in confiscated cars with West Bank license plates. Their tactics are often brutally simple. In Gaza undercover soldiers jumped from a car and clubbed Palestinian activists who were threatening Arab workers for violating a strike. Palestinian sources say the soldiers have also posed as members of the P.L.O. and beaten up rival Palestinians in attempts to spark internal warfare. Some of the Cherry soldiers even impersonate journalists, nabbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Code Name Cherry | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...within the bounds of Israeli law. Palestinians, on the other hand, charge that the clandestine teams have been given a license to kill. Last month six Cherry men disguised as Arabs drove a van with West Bank plates into the Arab village of Yatta. When local Palestinians approached the car to identify the occupants, two of them were machine-gunned to death. Both victims were on the Cherry unit's wanted list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Code Name Cherry | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...This is my rule everywhere. Only I know where. Nobody else. Only when I get into my car do I give the instructions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: with Yasser Arafat: Knowing the Enemy | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...martial arts in a children's play-ground, he fell asleep on a "wooden board supported by two springs." He said Blair woke him and told him to move--and although he obeyed, the officer harassed him, twisting his arm behind his back and slamming him against a police car...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Police Board Dismisses Charges of Harassment | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

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