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...school and I smelled something," she said, "and then I felt something pressing on my chest." At that point she passed out and was taken to the hospital, along with 250 other schoolchildren from the area. Her ailment: a mysterious malady that in the past four weeks has afflicted as many as 900 West Bank Palestinians, the majority of them young women. It all started at a girls' school in the West Bank village of Arrabe when pupils began to complain of the same symptoms: headaches, abdominal pains, dizziness, energy loss. The ailment spread to eight schools in Jenin...
...face. The angry crowd surged toward the police, jostling them. Nienaber retreated to his van and pulled out of the yard. Inexplicably, he then jumped from the van with a shotgun and declared he would shoot. As the crowd dispersed, Nienaber fired, shooting Mkhize fatally in the chest. The police claimed that Nienaber acted in self-defense, but public outrage over the killing has swept South Africa. Says Civil Rights Activist Josie Adler: "Saul was not a radical. He just wanted to keep his land...
...ahead, the police swarm into a building. The Captain watches: "It's safer to score when the cops are all around. They usually let you go after they bust you and being busted is better than being dead." Last year the Captain was shot five times in the chest by a man who wanted the small bag of heroin that he had just bought. The Captain spent two weeks in the hospital, but soon came back to Alphabet Town. He's still looking for the "crazy dude" who shot...
Then, as we approach them, there comes an empty lot, on our left. There is a wire fence as high as my chest. I and one or two other kids, put our hands on it, and throw ourselves over...
...Selleck, the 6-ft. 4-in., 200-lb. star of CBS's Magnum, P. I., which premiered in 1980. A genial shoot-'em-up, Magnum is set in Hawaii, a location that allows Selleck, 38, to romp on the beach and show off his grizzly-bear chest to the camera with once-a-week regularity. No. 2 in the latest Nielsen ratings, the show has apparently propelled Selleck to movie stardom as well. His first feature film, High Road to China, displaced Tootsie as the box-office leader upon its release March 18. A lethargic imitation of Raiders...