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...Time In his new film, Munich, director Steven Spielberg attempts to identify the terrorist act at the 1972 Olympics as the starting point for the cycle of violent events being played out today [Dec. 12]. But that cycle started in the 1940s, when Jews fleeing Europe occupied Palestine and drove its people into exile. Spielberg's use of his great talent in making deep and meaningful cinematic material has been a delight to his fans, myself included. But when it comes to the Middle East, it is categorically biased to take a snapshot of events in 1972 and have that...
...Dulaimi, the leader of the Iraqi Accordance Front, a Sunni political party. He wasn?t there and she left after waiting between 20 and 30 minutes. According to the driver and witnesses, the gunmen forced the driver to stop, then pulled him out of the car, piled in and drove away with Carroll and her translator, Allan Enwiyah, 32. ?All together, it didn't take 10 seconds,? Carroll's driver told the Washington Post Monday night. Later Saturday, Enwiyah was found dead on the side of a road in Adel, the neighborhood where they were taken. To date there...
Rapton does know that when he took a tour of the Hebei Zhongxing Automobile factory south of Beijing last November, he watched workers weld vehicle components together by hand?an assembly scene out of the '50s. But after his son test-drove a few models, Rapton started to think he could sell China's cars in the U.S. Setting aside doubts about Hebei's quality control, he signed a "memo of understanding" to negotiate an import deal. "It might take them a year or two to get started," he says, "but I'm willing to take my chances...
...miners had survived and the false report had spread in a nearby Baptist church were family and friends had gathered. In an instant, a scene of euphoria turned to shock, sadness and anger. Family members moaned, clutching their foreheads and stomachs. One man jumped in his pickup truck, drove through the mud and gravel and nearly rammed a news reporter and sheriff?s cruiser, before throwing the truck in reverse and roaring off. "Oh, I am angry now,? said Sam Lantz, whose son-in-law Marty Bennett was killed. ?They lied...
...FOUR O'CLOCK, AN ESCAPED CONVICT bought a pair of Bushnell binoculars just up Main Street at York Arms Company, one of the businesses whose windows were smashed on March 28. He drove back to finish setting up a surveillance post. The convict had driven from Atlanta, where the newspapers said King was leaving for a march in Memphis, arriving late the previous night. This day, reading front-page news that King was staying at the Lorraine, and perhaps hearing radio reports that specified Room 306, he had located and studied the motel until an hour ago, when he rented...