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Reading The West Bank Story, we follow Halabi and his camera crew as they criss-cross the region. In Ramallah, thousands of angry demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags surge down the main street protesting the Israeli occupation. When a patrol of Israeli soldiers arrives, it is greeted by a barricade of flaming tires and a barrage of stones In Hebron. Jews from a nearby settlement roam the streets, machine guns in hand, smashing the glass from Arab cars and shop fronts In Nablus, Israeli bulldozers demolish 20 Arab houses in retaliation for a bomb blast at a Jewish shop. In Elon...

Author: By Jonathan G. Cedarbaum, | Title: West Bank Report | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

...home turf. In particular, his characters are dazzling. Valeria Raresh, Corde's mother-in-law, for whom the Corders have traveled to Rumania (Bellow, incidentally, also went to Bucharest several years ago with his mathematician wife on a similar journey) lies in a state hospital, her face criss-crossed with tapes and tubes. After a coronary and a stroke, it is only a matter of time for Valeria. But in Corde's reminiscences of her. She is a strikingly vital character. "Great Valeria," the psychiatrist, the epitome of Old World class in a country of New Age brutality and philistinism...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Bellow and the Burden of His Past | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

Although tight coverage of leading scorers Kelly Landry and Alicia Carrillo hampered the Crimson offense, Ferrante praised the attack. "We've been working on the criss-crosses all season and now we feel comfortable with them. The switching in the offensive worked quite well today...

Author: By William A. Danoff, | Title: Women Booters Blank Eagles To Meet UMass in Easterns | 11/5/1981 | See Source »

...next four finishers for Harvard were sophomore Andy Gerkin placing 35th with a time of 25:35, freshmen sensations Criss Sheehan (25:47) and Peter Jelley (25:48) placing 41st and 42nd, and senior Ralph Smith coming in 56th with a time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men's Cross Country Team Gains Seventh at Heptagonals | 10/31/1981 | See Source »

...northwest of San Francisco. They got separated, and Diana O'Connell, 22, never met her two friends at the end of the trail. A search party found O'Connell and another hiker, Shauna May, 23, in a wooded area, both shot through the head, their nude bodies criss-crossed on the ground. About a mile away from that slaying, two fully clothed but decomposed bodies were also found. Shot in the head, they were lying side by side face down at the base of a Douglas fir tree. The two were a teen-age couple who had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Death Trail | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

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