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...fact, the authors say in their exhaustive--even tedious--catalogue of quotes, Charles Boyer never invited anyone to the Casbah. Sherlock Holmes never chided his sidekick with the words, "Elementary, my dear Watson." And Will Rogers never said he never met a man he didn't like...
...think like them when the uprising erupted. His political sensibilities, like those of other older men in Nablus, had dulled after 21 years of occupation. An auto mechanic, he worked hard to keep his large family in their 400-year-old two-room ancestral home in the Casbah of Nablus. He lived for his children, hoping they would be educated enough someday to become doctors and teachers. Then politics intruded into his quiet life and, given the frequent general strikes called by intifadeh leaders, he decided to quit his job in Israel. The $130 a month he now earns...
...Baker complained pointedly about the lack of "willingness to jettison amendments that sometimes are supported by only one member." In the same vein, Representative Robert Kastenmeier, a Wisconsin Democrat, castigated his colleagues: "A trade bill should be used to set trade policy, not provide some kind of discount Casbah for special interests...
...beatings have provided only a temporary respite. Last week fresh waves of violence swept over the West Bank and Gaza. For two days the Casbah of Nablus rang with a harsh tattoo as young stick-wielding Palestinian militants pounded on closed shop shutters and metallic junk barricades. Defying a curfew, the youths, armed with slingshots and iron bars, declared the old, walled portion of the West Bank city to be a Palestinian enclave. Forbidden red-black-white-an d-green Palestinian flags waved from the mosques, the gangs controlled the streets, and the army refused to enter...
Kuwaiti oil tankers once known as the exotic-sounding Al Rekkah and Casbah will soon be traversing the Persian Gulf bearing such familiar American names as Sea Isle City and Ocean City. But more than just the names will have changed. Under the plan President Reagan announced in the wake of Iraq's inadvertent attack on the U.S.S. Stark, eleven Kuwaiti tankers are scheduled to begin sailing under the Stars and Stripes next week. They will be captained by American skippers and escorted by American warships as they ply the world's most treacherous waterway...