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...Nothing on four-year-old Samer or the baby Palestine yet, but Ahmed has been located. He is posted somewhere on the front and is a full-fledged soldier now. His older brother Farouk will try to track him down. Farouk is more self-assured than Ahmed, a bit colder as well. At 31, he holds a high rank in Al-Fatah, the largest faction within the P.L.O. He says very little at first, sizing up the stranger. Their taxi rolls past a fat man who has been forced to drop his pants for a search at a checkpoint...
...only was it simultaneously colder, windier and snowier across a wider swath than anyone could remember, but the harshness seemed to clamp down and stay. On Wednesday a new round of snowstorms rose in Arizona and New Mexico, moved east into Texas and covered the Waco area with up to a foot of snow. A blizzard struck the Great Plains on Friday and the Great Lakes states on Saturday; Midwestern temperatures once more fell into the -20° to -30° range. Snow fell again on the battered Gulf Coast and the Eastern seaboard off and on during the weekend...
...toward zero and below in the Midwest, the South and the East. That might not be the last. "When it stays very cold," said NWS Meteorologist Nolan Duke, "it's kind of setting up a situation where anything else that comes your way is going to be even colder." His colleague Larry Wilson added a disquieting caveat. "These situations," he warned, "can last for a month." For most of the U.S., where even a brief thaw was still a dream, one week had seemed more than enough. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Ken Banta/Chicago, with other U.S. bureaus
...Warsaw were convinced that those words had been written by Jaruzelski himself out of an obvious worry that his unseasoned young army might lose control of the situation. As Poles faced their bleakest Christmas since World War II, a dreadful stillness settled across the land. The days seemed colder, the nights darker, the streets emptier. The quiet was broken only occasionally, most often by the rumble of armored personnel carriers. But every so often, as it has for centuries, a familiar anthem would rise from some church, apartment building or worker's cottage: "Poland is not yet lost...
...days are getting shorter; the leaves are fast falling from the trees; it's colder outside; and stores are already putting up their Christmas decorations. It's definitely October--almost November, in fact...