Word: communalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kind of life in Soweto, a spirit that is not limited to political consciousness. Despite the poverty and the joblessness, there are small tokens of enterprise in the townships. Residents are buying hulks of old cars to start their own jitney taxi service. Women are organizing neighborhood communal food-growing projects and day-care centers. People are buying transistors, tape decks and television sets, as if suddenly eager to latch onto a few small pleasures of life. There is champagne in the shebeens, and the chef in Soweto's one hotel now sleeps proudly on a water bed. True...
...Arabs have a number of complaints. During the ten years of occupation, West Bankers say, they have consistently been subjected to mass arrests for security violations, interrogation under torture, sudden deportation, communal punishment for individual offenses (TIME, May 30). Even those who have not run afoul of Israeli military discipline chafe under a regime they find capricious and humiliating. Complains Tayseer Kanaan, who was Jerusalem's chief judge in the time of Jordanian rule: "Even my tax and phone bills are in Hebrew. It makes me feel illiterate; I have to go to someone else to find out what...
...understandable reasons, Israel has cracked down hard on potential terrorists and on P.L.O. sympathizers in the West Bank. The means are not gentle. For example, it has long been government policy to impose communal punishments for individual crimes to discourage terrorist activity. Thus when one member of a family has been caught as a security risk, the house where he lives, perhaps with a mother, father, brother or sister, has been either blown up or, in more recent years, sealed up. Last year seven houses were cemented shut in this fashion. Sometimes curfews are imposed on whole towns...
Rocker & Rock. Walton remains the calm at the center of the storm, living his life as he always has in his rented, five-bedroom communal home with Sports Radicals Jack and Micki Scott, his wife Susan, his l½year-old son Adam, his brother Andy and various drop-in friends. Says Walton: "I don't think I've changed. I still have the same values and interests." Rising by 10 a.m., he typically breakfasts on a quart of juice, a vegetable omelet and rice. On game days, he arrives at the Memorial Coliseum ahead of his teammates...
...unite the splintered Labor Party. Voters accepted Rabin's abdication with mixed feelings. He had been an uncertain and disappointing leader. But he was also the first sabra (native-born Israeli) to become Premier; the abrupt downfall of one of the "sons of the founders" had tragic communal overtones...