Word: cleans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would like you, my brother, to join in a prayer to Allah that it will be a day of compassion, honor and bravery." Khaalis protested that the place where he was appeared "unclean." This remark convinced the negotiators that Khaalis was a devout Muslim who would pray only in clean surroundings, as Islamic tradition prescribes. Now there was hope, for a source of leverage existed-the compassion cited in the Koran...
...interested in that,' he said. 'I have three beautiful wives.' They had this thing about cleanliness. They told the men they had to sit to go to the bathroom, so they wouldn't splash urine around. They had the male hostages clean up the toilets. There was one girl who wet her pants. The gunmen told a B'nai B'rith man to clean the floor, and they had the girl take off her wet slacks and put on a pair of painter's overalls...
Symbol or not, Clean Gene ran a real campaign last fall. He got on the ballot in most states and garnered more than a million dissatisfied voters to his cause. For Carter, who would have lost the election but for a 20,000 vote margin in Ohio and Hawaii, he was all too real...
...bands that remain in the hills spend more time running than fighting. Reports TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich: "Some government patrols go for ten months without spotting a single guerrillero. But the killing goes on. Sources close to the National Guard say that the soldiers' orders are to 'clean out the hills.' The latest crop of guerrillas may be dead or in hiding, but 'this time the government wants to be sure that no new guerrilla base area will rise again. They intend to eliminate the peasants...
...poor white boy from Dugton, Ala. His daddy is the dashing county drunk who falls down and kills himself " while urinating on his mule. Jed's mother is the pone of the earth. She supports her fatherless boy by working in a cannery. She makes sure he has clean shirts and does his homework. Her dream is to get Jed up and out of Dugton as soon as possible...