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...army announced yesterday that border policeshot and wounded one Palestinian in the leg afterfire bombs were thrown at a patrol. The incidenttook place when a curfew was briefly lifted in theBalata refugee camp near Nablus. Arab reports saidthree were wounded...
...armed with wooden truncheons were dispatched to potential trouble spots in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. By week's end United Nations relief officials reported that soldiers had used clubs and fists to beat hundreds of Palestinians, including some women who were caught violating the around-the-clock curfew that has confined tens of thousands to their homes. At least ten of those beaten required hospitalization. Government leaders conceded that the pummeling would do nothing to enhance Israel's prestige around the world. Said a senior official: "Our image has been bad, and I'm afraid it will remain...
...curfew, which affected refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank, was extended Friday evening to a neighborhood in Arab East Jerusaleum, the first time such a measure had been used there since Israel seized the sector in 1967. The restriction imposed an uneasy tranquillity in the territories, but even Rabin called it a "forced calm" likely to be shattered as soon as the Arab population was allowed back on the streets. Some curfew restrictions were lifted after complaints of food shortages. Israeli officials insisted that any shortages were self-imposed, the result of a commercial strike that has shuttered...
Finally, the military resorted to its most drastic measures yet. Entrances to the eight camps where most of the residents live were closed and the people were confined to their houses. The curfew was lifted once a day to allow the purchase of food. "We have to beat them in their pockets," said a military official. "They will not be able to carry on for long without the money they earn working either here in Gaza or in Israel." Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir suggested that if the Gazans continued to riot, they might never be allowed to return to their...
...participating Harvard undergraduatesalso will patrol the corridors of the hotel until2 a.m. to make sure that the students keep theirmidnight curfew. The conference has been "quietrelative to what can happen when you get 2000 highschool students together," said Secretary-GeneralJames L. Cairns '88, who is running theconference. On Thursday night, however, a room ofdelegates whas thrown out for alcohol posession...