Word: fellowes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hodgson's colleagues were apparently not expecting his resignation. Sklar said that "everyone was surprised" at his announcement and that his fellow librarians liked and respected...
...dusk the streets are deserted. "Anyone who goes out at night may be shot on sight," says Abdel Nasser, 24. "We sit and think only of revenge." In a nearby hideout, Jamal and fellow activists gather to chain smoke, play cards and mythologize their suffering. When the claustrophobia becomes unbearable, they sneak up to the rooftop to stare at the stars and the sweeping spotlights from Israeli patrols. Says Bassem, 29, who has been on the run for a year: "I'm expecting one of two things: either prison or death in an ambush...
...fear that any escalation would jeopardize hard-won international sympathy. Already, the carefully nurtured image of a rebellion fought by children with stones has % been tarnished by a gruesome turn to Arab-vs.-Arab bloodshed. At least 140 Palestinians have been shot, beaten, stabbed or hacked to death by fellow Arabs. Most of the victims were charged with collaborating with the occupation...
...turned on William Farley, the physical-fitness buff who acquired Northwest Industries, the maker of Fruit of the Loom products, for $1 billion in 1985. Last February Farley took over textile giant West Point-Pepperell in a $3 billion raid that included $1.6 billion of junk-bond financing. A fellow raider calls Farley's debt a "time bomb." While Farley once joked that "we're doing fine, except that the banks expect us to pay them back," he now refuses to discuss his finances or the subject of raiding. Says he: "I'm staying 180 degrees away from that topic...
...last Tuesday, Vaclav Havel stepped from a silver Volkswagen Golf and, trailed by eight fellow members of the Civic Forum, proceeded to a second-floor conference room in the cream stucco building. Prime Minister Ladislav Adamec opened the talks with a seven-minute statement outlining the government's concessions. In return, Adamec said, "please terminate your strikes. This is my wish and my plea." Havel was in no mood to be conciliatory. For the next 18 minutes, he listed the Civic Forum's demands, all of which, he said, must...