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...funeral cortege drove north toward the Israeli settlement of Itamar to bury a resident killed by Palestinian gunmen in an ambush. Nitza Tzameret was in the third car in the procession, behind an army-jeep escort. When the vehicles approached the Palestinian village of Kafr Khalil, shots rang out. The cars halted, and the terrified mourners poured out. Tzameret and her husband lay in a ditch at the roadside as Israeli soldiers returned fire up into the olive groves. The gun battle lasted 30 minutes. Since then Tzameret has slept no more than two hours a night, fearing intruders...
...Ford would not let me drive the prototype up the steepest test hills or around the sharpest curves, but I was impressed by the gentle, seamless shifting between the gas engine and electric power at low speeds. The car went silent every time I released the gas pedal or drove it slowly in reverse...
Caro seems energized by his ambivalence toward L.B.J. Sheer ambition drove the Johnsonian dialectic portrayed in Master. First, Johnson veered to the right and allied himself with conservative Southerners when he arrived at the Senate in 1949. Some years later, he emerged as the hero of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. L.B.J. saw that he could never be elected President if he was perceived as merely a Southerner; he also saw that the civil rights bill was just and necessary...
...swift, but not in the way the Egyptians had expected. That night last summer, the Pakistani security forces never turned up. Instead, a car with diplomatic plates full of Taliban roared up to the Peshwar house, grabbed al-Khadir and drove him over the Khyber Pass to safety in Afghanistan?beyond the Egyptians' grasp. Put bluntly, the Pakistani spy agency, known as the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), had betrayed the Egyptians. "The next day, the ISI called up and said, 'So sorry, the man gave us the slip,'" a diplomat recalls...
...swift - but not in the way the Egyptians expected. That night the Pakistani security forces never turned up. Instead a car with diplomatic plates roared up to the Peshawar house. As the Egyptians watched, a gang of Taliban spilled out, grabbed Khadr and then drove him over the Khyber Pass to Afghanistan, beyond the Egyptians' reach. The Pakistani spy agency, known as Inter-Services Intelligence, had betrayed the Egyptians. "The next day the ISI called up and said, 'So sorry, the man gave us the slip,'" a diplomat recalls...