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...tell them of suspicious persons, who are then picked up for what is often a fatal interrogation. Says a Salvadoran who served in a battalion until last month: "It is not good to ask about them, because they will even kill other soldiers who they think are too curious...
Both Syrian and Israeli authorities lost no time in offering their explanations for the curious, combustible incident. As Damascus told it, the radios and cameras indicated that the three Israelis were spies, not tourists; they were mounting a deliberate attempt to infiltrate Syrian lines; moreover, the Israelis were armed and had started shooting first. Israel adamantly claimed that the captives were nothing more than irresponsible civilians. "The Israeli version seems more plausible," said a Western diplomat in Beirut. "But the men were stupid to be in the area, and Jerusalem will be asking some pretty tough questions of those...
Andrews calls Rowse's Shakespeare the "Caliban" edition, after the half-man, half-brute in The Tempest. Maynard Mack, professor emeritus of English at Yale, tends to agree. Rowse's curious hybrid, Mack says, results in a "language that was never spoken by anyone-not by Shakespeare, not by us. People want the real thing. They don't want deodorized versions of the original. They read Shakespeare precisely because they realize that he belongs to a different world and time, and they want to taste and sense that time." Since last week marked the 420th anniversary...
...success of the government's economic programs has also given rise to a clutch of unprecedented problems. So many curious visitors want to witness the economic miracle of Shenzhen firsthand that the government has had to erect a metal fence, complete with patrol road and sweeping arc lights, along the length of the zone's 54-mile border. Workers in the cities, whose $40-a-month wage used to be twice as high as that of the average farmer, must now watch uneducated villagers take home $400 a month. Jealous, or "red-eyed," party cadres vent their resentment against prosperous...
...little disappointing that Horner issued not the first, but the last official denunciation of the Pi Eta Club's newsletter, which referred to women as "slobbering bovines" and employed violent sexual imagery. Curious too, in light of Horner's own praise for the strong responses from Bok and Fox, saying such an official response is "reassuring" and "essential for restoring the confidence in the basic civility of this community...