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...previously planned move to Arizona. He will get another hearing next week. Meanwhile, talking over a tapped telephone in his new home, Martin argued that his articles were "just trying to put a human voice into the stereotypes of criminals. I could've dug up a lot of dirt at Lompoc and written about it, but I never did because I'm not a stool pigeon. All I'm trying to do is be a writer...
Assorted tools, wire, rocks and dirt are not the stuff that spooks seek in spy novels. But such materials turned up last month when Soviet inspectors searched personal items being shipped home by three Americans working for the Energy Department at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. Soviet authorities charged that the items were sensitive and that shipment of them was banned under the agreement permitting each superpower to monitor underground tests on the other's territory...
...show biz. He has re- created -- in Morocco, and on a pinchpenny budget of $6.5 million -- a Palestine of sere deserts and balding meadows. It takes hard men to work this holy land, men who labor under the twin burdens of poverty and occupying oppression. Their clothes are dirt-dry and sweat-drenched. Their faces, most of them, boast Semitic heritage; their voices hold the raspy, urgent cadences of Brooklyn, Appalachia and other frontier outposts of working-class America. (Only Satan and the Romans speak with British accents.) By jolting the viewer to reconsider Hollywood's calcified stereotypes...
...explosion, witnessed by this reporter from a vantage point several cars behind the official motorcade, blew a hole in the road and scattered chunks of pavement, rocks and dirt over a wide area...
...goes, 'David, there's a buck!' And he just threw his gun up there and he went ka-pow! He got him. He's layin' there kickin', and Dad goes, 'Shoot there!' And I put a bullet in the gun and I go boom! And the bullet hits the dirt. I go, 'I think I missed it.' I put another one in there and I aim again. Ka-pow! I say, 'Dad, I think I missed again.' We went down there, and it stopped kickin' and stuff. And Dad, he just started guttin' it. Dressin' it. It was the first...