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...spark that ignited the New Mexico riot took place at about 2 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 2, when two guards discovered two inmates in Dormitory E-2 drinking hooch they had brewed from fermented fruit. The drunken prisoners overpowered the guards and stormed down the corridor to the control center, a cluster of rooms in the middle of the prison. The inmates shattered 1½-in.-thick windows with clubs and, once inside, flicked open many of the switches that control the locks in the prison's ten dormitories and cell blocks...
...proposed a Palestinian council of 80 to 100 members with full legislative, executive and judicial authority over the territories. Israel's chief negotiator, hard-line Interior Minister Yosef Burg, complained that this amounted to a "Palestinian parliament." He told TIME: "The Egyptians look upon autonomy as merely a corridor leading to Palestinian statehood. We are very allergic to anything that smacks of statehood...
...students battled in a corridor in an unfinished wing of the high school which Wolf said was "off limits" to students...
...masks of the Americans. Said one attacker: "We had the gas for three hours. You can taste it for a while." Then they blindfolded the embassy staff, bound their hands and made them sit on a corridor floor. Soon the students put one of their prisoners on parade, draping his body with a Khomeini poster. One attacker brandished a picture of the Ayatullah that, he claimed, embassy personnel had used as a dart board...
What even the most militant of the Palestinians want is to have open borders, to go freely to and from Israel. We would never support the idea of a corridor between the West Bank and Gaza. Why should there be one, when the people of Gaza and the West Bank can pass freely through Israel? The same is true of Jerusalem. Everyone now realizes that the partition of Jerusalem is not a solution. We have to live there together: a Jewish quarter here, an Arab quarter there; a Jewish area like Beersheba, an Arab area like Gaza. They must...